Hetero- and isosexual pseudoprecocity associated with testicular sex-cord tumors in an 8 year-old male

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 407-414

  Diamond Jr , Frank B ^a   Root, Allen W ^a   Hoover, Dennis L ^a   Monteforte, Hector ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; GYNECOMASTIA; HETEROSEXUALITY; HISTOLOGY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD; SERTOLI CELL TUMOR; TESTIS TUMOR;

CHILD; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; SEX CORD-GONADAL STROMAL TUMORS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 9344224594     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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