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Table 2 Prenatal and postnatal features of Turner syndrome [23, 26]

From: Severe haemophilia a in a preterm girl with turner syndrome - a case report from the prenatal period to early infancy (part I)

Prenatal features increased nuchal translucency (NT), cystic hygroma, hydrops fetalis, subcutaneous edema, cardiac or renal anomalies, short femur and fetal growth restriction.
Postnatal features
 Physical features short, webbed neck
low line of hairs at the back of the neck
puffy hands, cruses and feet at birth
lymphedema of the whole body at birth
Failure to thrive during first year of life
multiple pigmented naevi
 Eyes epicanthic fold, hiperteloryzm, ptosis
 Ears big, low-set ears rotated to the back, deformity of external ear
 Mouth high arched palate, abnormal dental development, small mandible
 Chest widely spaced nipples, inverted nipples, broad chest (shield chest), pectus excavatum,
 Nails narrow, hyperconvex uplifted nails, nail hypoplasia/dystrophy