Precocious puberty: A blessing in disguise!

Germ cell tumors may lead to incomplete isosexual male precocity and are commonly located in the pineal gland. Germinomas of the basal ganglia are almost always unilateral and precocious puberty is a rare manifestation in them. We report a 9.5-year-old boy who presented with incomplete isosexual pre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Goswami, Soumik, Chakraborty, Partha Pratim, Bhattacharjee, Rana, Roy, Ajitesh, Thukral, Anubhav, Selvan, Chitra, Ghosh, Sujoy, Mukhopadhyay, Satinath, Chowdhury, Subhankar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830272/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24251126
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.119522
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Sumario:Germ cell tumors may lead to incomplete isosexual male precocity and are commonly located in the pineal gland. Germinomas of the basal ganglia are almost always unilateral and precocious puberty is a rare manifestation in them. We report a 9.5-year-old boy who presented with incomplete isosexual precocity due to bilateral basal ganglia germinoma.

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