Case report: congenital adrenal hyperplasia and malignant Leydig cell tumor
Leydig cell tumors are very rarely seen testicular tumors and can be difficult to distinguish from testicular tumors of the adrenogenital syndrome. Testicular tumors of the adrenogenital syndrome are confined to patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The authors report a case of a patient wit...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The American journal of the medical sciences 1995-01, Vol.309 (1), p.63-65 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Leydig cell tumors are very rarely seen testicular tumors and can be difficult to distinguish from testicular tumors of the adrenogenital syndrome. Testicular tumors of the adrenogenital syndrome are confined to patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia. The authors report a case of a patient with malignant Leydig cell tumor and a history of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (adrenogenital syndrome). To the authors' knowledge, this has not been reported previously. |
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ISSN: | 0002-9629 |
DOI: | 10.1097/00000441-199501000-00010 |