Paraneoplastic precocious puberty in a child. Mediastinal teratoma with chorionic gonadotropin secretion
Job, J.C.; Chaussain, J.L.; Franchimont, P.; Rolland, A.
Archives Francaises de Pediatrie 32(5): 471-477
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9764 PMID: 1103775 Document Number: 91250
A case of precocious puberty in a 5-years old boy with a rapid increase of androgens, small testes, a high level of urinary bioassayable gonadotrophins, but no response of pituitary gonadotrophins of LH-RH injection. The cause was a mediastinal teratoma secreting chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG and beta subunit).