Tuesday 16 August 2011

Clinical Radiological Pathological Conference: August 2011. A female with sexual development problem

Clinical-Radiological-Pathological conference is the monthly acticity held by Department of Medciine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University.
There is presentation of a case and discussion by clinician (internal medicine staff), radiologist and a diagnostician (usually pathologist but can be any one aware of the final diagnosis such as microbiologist, geneticist, parasitologist or clinicians)
The CRPC case will be recorded and posted on our department website: http://forum.cumedicine.org/index.php?board=6.0

Before the date of CRPC, there is the active discussion board in another webboard: http://forum.cumedicine.org/index.php?topic=528.msg2181#new

This month, the CPC case is a 18-year-old woman who presented with primary amenorrhea, secondary sex characteristics underdevelopment, and a large lobulated heterogeneous enhancing mass with amorphous calcification in the pelvic cavity.

Who are interested in case discussion can follow the link and leave the comments.

Reference for the discussion: Books: Genetic Disorders of Human Sexual Development: Leonard Pinsky, Rober P Erickson and R Neil Schimke. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780195109078.do
Websites:
Orphanet: http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/index.php
Gene reviews: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1116/
OMIM: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/omim