Background: Gonadal dysgenesis, the most common cause of primary amenorrhea, is characterized by absent or underdeveloped ovaries. Although coexistence gonadal dysgenesis and Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser (MRKH) has been reported, it still quite infrequent. To extent that authors searched, just one study reported association between Rokitansky sequence Dandy-Walker malformation. Clinical Prese...

Sweyers syndrome or pure gonadal dysgenesis is characterised by primary amenorrhea , presence of female phenotype, external genitalia and internal with hypoplastic uterus streak gonads. A 16 year old girl presented secondary amenorrhoea, she attained menarche at 11 years was followed 4 months regular cycles thereafter developed two amenorrhea. On examination phenotypically no sexual characteris...

PURPOSE to verify the prevalence and clinical characteristics of patients with primary amenorrhea and XY karyotype, evaluated in our Service, aiming at identifying findings which could help their recognition. METHODS from January 1975 to November 2007, 104 patients with amenorrhea were evaluated. All the cases were analyzed by the karyotype by GTG bands. Among them, 21 (20.2%) presented a XY ...

The images are from a 19-year-old female immigrant from Central America who presented with primary amenorrhea. Pelvic ultrasound (A) shows the presence of intrauterine synechiae vs. septum with punctate cal-cification. Hysterosalpingogram (B) shows a smooth-walled filling defect within the endometrial cavity and obstructed fallopian tubes. The endometrial cavity was also viewed by hysteroscopy ...

a seventeen-years old woman was presented with infertility and primary amenorrhea. she had normal stature, femate phenotype and normal development of breasts, external genitalia, vagina and cervix. pelvic examination showed a large lobulated mass. on sonography there was a mass with probable origin of ovary. paraclinic tests were carried out. gonadotropins were in postmeno pausal limits. alpha ...