title: Turner syndrome - an accidental finding?
abstract: We report the case of a 9-year-old girl with bilaterally reduced pedal pulses following emergency surgery for unilateral subtrochanteric femoral fracture. This incidental postoperative finding of differential blood pressures between the upper and lower limbs led to the diagnosis of aortic coarctation and subsequent karyotype analysis confirmed the rare diagnosis of Turner syndrome.
authors.affiliation: Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Blackburn Hospital, Blackburn, UK.
authors.forename: Nighat
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Butt
authors.forename: Robin W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Paton
mesh_terms: D001017:Aortic Coarctation / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005264:Femoral Fractures / Q000601:surgery; D005593:Fracture Fixation, Internal; D006801:Humans; D014424:Turner Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology