Until 2005, questions regarding medical treatment and diagnostic information on Disorders of Sex Development (DSD) were not systematically discussed with both the patients and their families; however, the way these patients are currently treated have been changing with time. Interventional changes in the clinical-psychotherapeutic-surgical areas of DSD determine not only different medical recommendations but also help to place the patient and the family into the decisional process of therapy. We must consider two paradigmatic periods that have influenced and transformed […]

Turner syndrome’s (TS) incidence is about 1:2,130 live female births and its most important clinical features are short stature and gonadal dysgenesis, leading to primary amenorrehea, delayed pubertal development and infertility. Congenital and acquired anomalies and a great variety of dismorphic signs can also be observed. Thus, many characteristics and symptoms may have bad consequences in the psychosocial aspects of the patients with TS. The objective of this paper is to review the literature on psychosocial aspects of TS, mainly […]