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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Autores principales: Goswami, Soumik, Chakraborty, Partha Pratim, Bhattacharjee, Rana, Roy, Ajitesh, Thukral, Anubhav, Selvan, Chitra, Ghosh, Sujoy, Mukhopadhyay, Satinath, Chowdhury, Subhankar
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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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author Goswami, Soumik
Chakraborty, Partha Pratim
Bhattacharjee, Rana
Roy, Ajitesh
Thukral, Anubhav
Selvan, Chitra
Ghosh, Sujoy
Mukhopadhyay, Satinath
Chowdhury, Subhankar
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Chakraborty, Partha Pratim
Bhattacharjee, Rana
Roy, Ajitesh
Thukral, Anubhav
Selvan, Chitra
Ghosh, Sujoy
Mukhopadhyay, Satinath
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description 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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spelling pubmed-38302722013-11-18 Precocious puberty: A blessing in disguise! Goswami, Soumik Chakraborty, Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee, Rana Roy, Ajitesh Thukral, Anubhav Selvan, Chitra Ghosh, Sujoy Mukhopadhyay, Satinath Chowdhury, Subhankar Indian J Endocrinol Metab Brief Communication 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. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-10 /pmc/articles/PMC3830272/ /pubmed/24251126 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.119522 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ghosh, Sujoy
Mukhopadhyay, Satinath
Chowdhury, Subhankar
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830272/
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