Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism (Jan 2013)

Precocious puberty: A blessing in disguise!

  • Soumik Goswami,
  • Partha Pratim Chakraborty,
  • Rana Bhattacharjee,
  • Ajitesh Roy,
  • Anubhav Thukral,
  • Chitra Selvan,
  • Sujoy Ghosh,
  • Satinath Mukhopadhyay,
  • Subhankar Chowdhury

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.119522
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 17, no. 7
pp. 111 – 113

Abstract

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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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