Turner Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Abstract

Growth retardation often accompanies inflammatory bowel disease in children and adolescents, usually from a combination of nutritional and inflammatory factors. We have seen two patients with growth retardation and inflammatory bowel disease who, in addition, had chromosomal variants of the Turner syndrome. In one, growth retardation had been deemed the result of inflammatory bowel disease, and if the diagnosis of the Turner syndrome had not been made, resection of the involved bowel might have been carried out.Case ReportsCase 1. A girl born in June, 1954, was seen at Yale–New Haven Hospital in 1965 for evaluation of short stature . . .