Cerebellar astrocytoma presenting with precocious puberty in a girl. Case report.
2007
✓Central precocious puberty in girls is uncommon and tends to be idiopathic in most cases. In about 20 to 30% of cases there is an intracranial mass lesion. The common lesions are hypothalamic hamartomas, optic nerve gliomas, supra-sellar arachnoid cysts, hydrocephalus, germinomas, and other sellar/suprasellar lesions. Central precocious puberty secondary to a cerebellar astrocytoma is extremely rare. The authors report the first case in a girl who presented with several episodes of bleeding per vaginum. There was no clinical or radiological evidence of raised intracranial pressure.
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