An unusual presentation of congenital adrenocortical carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
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We describe a case of congenital non-functional adrenocortical carcinoma in a male infant who presented with recurrent pneumonia, paraparesis and sclerotic skeletal metastasis. To the best of our knowledge such presentation has never been reported.
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