[Gastrointestinal obstruction in the mosaic trisomy X]. / Obstrucción gastrointestinal en la trisomía X en mosaico.

Trisomic X is a sex chromosomal abnormality that may be presented in mosaic. This is not extremely rare, the majority of cases go undiagnosed. The prevalence has been established to 1/1000 females. It is clinically characterized by tall stature, microcephaly, hypertelorism, congenital abnormalities, and motor and language delays. The association between the trisomic X and gastrointestinal malformations is extremely rare. We report a case of mosaic trisomic X with gastric obstruction expanding the clinical spectrum of this entity and emphasizing its unknown pathogenesis.