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Turner syndrome is a sex chromosome disease caused by abnormalities in chromosome number or structure. Ocular dysplasia can be found in such patients [1, 2]. The visual field change in a Turner syndrome case is introduced in this section, and karyotypic abnormalities and chimerism are also analyzed.
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Fan, N., Liu, X., Wang, J. (2019). The Ocular Manifestation of Turner Syndrome. In: Wang, N., Liu, X., Fan, N. (eds) Optic Disorders and Visual Field. Advances in Visual Science and Eye Diseases, vol 2. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2502-1_21
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