A rare cause of vaginal bleeding in a 7-month-old female infant

Duane S Duke; Edward Y Yoo; Christopher Newton; Marshall Z Schwartz

doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2007.10.054

A rare cause of vaginal bleeding in a 7-month-old female infant

J Pediatr Surg. 2008 Mar;43(3):E1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2007.10.054.

Authors

Duane S Duke¹, Edward Y Yoo, Christopher Newton, Marshall Z Schwartz

Affiliation

¹ Department of Surgery, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Philadelphia, PA 19134, USA.

PMID: 18358265
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2007.10.054

Abstract

Ovarian sex cord stromal tumor (OSCST), sclerosing type, is an extremely rare ovarian tumor. Sex hormone production by OSCST can result in isosexual or heterosexual precocious puberty in younger patients. We present a case of a 7-month-old female infant found to have a sclerosing-type OSCST that presented with vaginal bleeding and very prominent vellus hair at the mons pubis. This represents the youngest patient reported in the literature with this subset of OSCST.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Age Factors
Biopsy, Needle
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Immunohistochemistry
Infant
Ovarian Neoplasms / complications*
Ovarian Neoplasms / pathology*
Ovarian Neoplasms / surgery
Ovariectomy / methods
Rare Diseases
Risk Assessment
Sex Cord-Gonadal Stromal Tumors / complications*
Sex Cord-Gonadal Stromal Tumors / pathology*
Sex Cord-Gonadal Stromal Tumors / surgery
Treatment Outcome
Uterine Hemorrhage / diagnosis
Uterine Hemorrhage / etiology*
Uterine Hemorrhage / surgery