Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Disorders of sex development where females have a 46,XY karyotype can be seen. Main reasons for this are the conditions of androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) and gonadal dysgenesis. The clinical phenotype of both conditions is variable and can present from an undervirilized or infertile male to an individual with ambiguous genitalia at birth, to a pure female phenotype with unambiguous genitalia, who first present in adolescence with primary amenorrhoea and/or...

Background: Studies have shown that the overall risk of cancer is not increased in Turner syndrome (TS). However, the pattern of cancer occurrence may be different than in the background population.Aim: To describe the cancer morbidity pattern in TS.Design: Nationwide epidemiological study using Danish registries on morbidity.Methods: 1,156 Females with TS diagnosed during 1960–2014 were identified using...