TUMOR OF THE TUBER CINEREUM WITH PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY: CASE REPORT WITH HORMONE ASSAYS
- 1 September 1960
- journal article
- research article
- Published by The Endocrine Society in Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
- Vol. 20 (9) , 1286-1293
- https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem-20-9-1286
Abstract
The report is presented of a boy with precocious puberty as well as petit-mal and grand-mal epilepsy. Urinary titers of follicle stimulating hormone and interstitial-cell stimulating hormone were abnormally high. The urinary output of 17-ketosteroids, determined repeatedly, was never found to be elevated. A deep-seated central lesion in the brain was diagnosed by electroencephalography, but was not revealed by air encephalography on repeated occasions. At necropsy a hamartoma, 1.5 cm. in diameter, was identified in the tuber cinereum.Keywords
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