Open AccessPrecocious puberty: A blessing in disguise!
Author(s) -
Soumik Goswami,
Partha Pratim Chakraborty,
Rana Bhattacharjee,
Ajitesh Roy,
Anubhav Thukral,
Chitra Selvan,
Sujoy Ghosh,
Satinath Mukhopadhyay,
Subhankar Chowdhury
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.456
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 2230-9500
pISSN - 2230-8210
DOI - 10.4103/2230-8210.119522
Subject(s) - precocious puberty , medicine , basal ganglia , basal (medicine) , blessing , germinoma , endocrinology , hormone , chemotherapy , central nervous system , insulin , history , archaeology
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.