Surgical excision of hypothalamic hamartoma in a twenty months old boy with precocious puberty

Abstract

A twenty months old boy presented to our department with true precocious puberty due to hypothalamic hamartoma. Total surgical excision of pedunculated hypothalamic hamartoma was done successfully by the pterional trans-sylvian approach as he could not afford medical management. Patient had uneventful post-operative course with normalization of serum testosterone levels and regression of secondary sexual characters.

Keywords

• Hypothalamic hamartoma
• precocious puberty
• surgical management