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Ovarian Cysts in Precocious Puberty

Osamu Arisaka, MD

Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Naoto Shimura, MD

Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yuko Nakayama, MD

Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Keijiro Yabuta, MD

Department of Pediatrics, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yasuo Yoshizawa, MD

Departmetn of Pediatric Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshinori Hirai, MD

Departmetn of Pediatric Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Tsugio Yoshimine, MD

Department of Pathology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

Noriyuki Kuwabara, MD

Department of Pathology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

We describe a 7-year-old girl with precocious puberty in whom a single large cyst (5 cm) and several small cysts (8-10 mm) in the single remaining ovary were detected by the ultrasound examination. Endocrinological examinations confirmed the diagnosis of central precocious puberty. Pathologic findings after the removal of the cystic lesions revealed that the large cyst was derived from degenerated follicular cysts and the small cysts were identical to follicular cysts: all were considered to have been formed by gonadotropin stimulation.

In general, surgical removal of an ovarian follicular cyst in central precocious puberty is inappropriate. However, in this unusual patient who had a degenerated large cyst, surgery seemed to be appropriate because of a previously removed teratoma in the contralateral ovary.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 28, No. 1, 44-47 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288902800111
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