Turner syndrome
Síndrome de Turner
- Date
- 1938 · confidence high
- Place
- University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
- Credited to
- Henry Turner
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Endocrinologist Henry Turner, chief of that department at the University of Oklahoma, presented seven cases of women with short stature, absent pubertal development and webbed necks to the Association for the Study of Internal Secretions, defining a distinct clinical syndrome.
The original candidate had no year; verified as 1938 (presented to the Association for the Study of Internal Secretions). The condition had already been described earlier by Otto Ullrich (1930) in Europe, hence the German name Ullrich-Turner syndrome.
What it led to
- The identification of Turner syndrome as distinct from other causes of short stature
- The later search for its chromosomal cause (X monosomy, 1959)
- Hormone treatment protocols for girls with the condition