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Precocious Puberty in a Three Year Old Boy: A Hormone Secreting Testicular Tumor Should be High in Differential Diagnosis
Kailas Bhandarkar P, Dinesh H Kittur, Santosh V Patil, Sudhakar S Jadhav
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Sushrut Jadav Kinderchirurgie Charitable Trust’s Pediatric Surgery Centre and PG Institute, Sangli, Maharastra-416415, India.
Corresponding Author:
Dr. Kailas Bhandarkar P
Email: drbhandarkar@hotmail.com
Received:
11-JUN-2017
Accepted:
30-AUG-2017
Published Online:
15-OCT-2017
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.17659/01.2017.0091
Abstract
Background
: Etiologies of iso-sexual precocious puberty are numerous. Among common causes for precocious puberty, hormone secreting testicular tumors are important. Leydig cell tumor is a sex cord stromal tumor of the testis. This usually presents with precocious puberty in pre-adolescent boys.
Case Report
: Our patient is a three year old boy who presented to his pediatrician with one year history of iso-sexual precocious puberty. Later, a right testicular mass was detected. He underwent an inguinal orchidectomy.
Conclusion
: Hormone secreting testicular tumors should be always be high in differential diagnosis in boys who present with precocious puberty and testicular enlargement.
Keywords :
Leydig Cell Tumor, Male, Orchiectomy, Precocious Puberty, Testicular Neoplasms.
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