title: Precocious puberty: A blessing in disguise!
abstract: Germ cell tumors may lead to incomplete isosexual male precocity and are commonly located in the pineal gland. Germinomas of the basal ganglia are almost always unilateral and precocious puberty is a rare manifestation in them. We report a 9.5-year-old boy who presented with incomplete isosexual precocity due to bilateral basal ganglia germinoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, IPGME and R and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
authors.forename: Soumik
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goswami
authors.forename: Partha Pratim
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Chakraborty
authors.forename: Rana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bhattacharjee
authors.forename: Ajitesh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Roy
authors.forename: Anubhav
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Thukral
authors.forename: Chitra
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Selvan
authors.forename: Sujoy
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: Satinath
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mukhopadhyay
authors.forename: Subhankar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chowdhury
keywords: Basal ganglia germinoma; precocious puberty