Virilism - Adrenal Tumour

Congenital Adrenal Cortical Insufficiency with Virilism

This paper presents the case of a boy developing symptoms of adrenal insufficiency soon after birth, followed by unmistakable evidences of the changes in the development associated with androgens. Other reports bring out the fact that the picture of increased androgenic activity with or without adrenocortical insufficiency is associated with hyperplasia and persistence of the fetal (androgenic)...

Adrenal Cortical Hyperplasia with Virilism: Diagnosis, Course and Treatment.

Adrenal-Rest Tumour of the Ovary with Virilism. Report of a Case with a Brief Review of Literature

Peham is credited (Burket and Abell, 1944) with the report of the first case in 1899 in Germany, but there was no typical masculinization in his case. Bovin (Kepler, Dokerty and Priestly, 1944) reported the first case in America in 1908 and Blair and Bell (Searle et al., 1948) reported the first case in England in 1915. By 1944, Kepler et al. collected 13 cases from the literature and added one...

Suprarenal Virilism

Until a year ago the patient, a girl aged 5 years, was to all appearances norma], mentally and physically. During the dst twelve months she became fat, listless, unusually silent, Prone to sit about, disinclined to take an interest in her Surroundings or to play with other children. With the increasing fatness growth in stature was at an normally vigorous rate, hair developing on the limbs and ...

Primitive neuroectodermal adrenal gland tumour.

Ewing's sarcoma, also called primitive neuroectodermal tumour of the adrenal gland, is extremely rare. Only a few cases have been reported in the literature. We report on a woman with adult-onset primitive neuroectodermal tumour of the adrenal gland presenting with progressive flank pain. Computed tomography confirmed an adrenal tumour with invasion of the left diaphragm and kidney. Radical sur...