Rare virilizing granulosa cell tumor in an adolescent. 2017

Dorottya Bús, and Mária Buzogány, and Gyöngyi Nagy, and György Vajda
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Zala County Hospital, 8900 Zalaegerszeg, Hungary.

Hormone-producing malignancies are rare in children or adolescent patients: Only 0.1% of all ovarian tumors and 4-5% of granulosa cell tumors occur in the sexually non-active ages. Granulosa cell tumors (GCTs) are sex cord-stromal tumors of the ovary, representing 7-8% of all ovarian neoplasms. A total of 95% of all GCTs are adult-type, and only 5% are diagnosed as juvenile-type GCT. A majority of children with juvenile-type GCT present with isosexual precocious pseudopuberty due to excessive estrogen production, although virilizing, testosterone-producing, juvenile-type GCTs are rare, occurring only in 2-3% of cases. The present case study reports on a case of a virilizing, juvenile-type GCT in a 14-year-old girl, along with a review of the literature.

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