title: Successful pregnancy following surgery for a masculinizing adrenocortical carcinoma.
abstract: A 16-year-old girl with a masculinizing adrenal carcinoma treated surgically is presented. Following surgery a full clinical and steroid remission has been achieved, without any adjuvant chemotherapy. In the 7th year after the surgical treatment the patient became pregnant. Pregnancy and labour were uncomplicated. The patient continues in complete remission, and her son has been noted to have normal development at 21 mth of age.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000306:Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic; D014770:Virilism / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery