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Gonadal Histology with Testicular Carcinoma in Situ in a 15-Year-Old 46,XY Female Patient with a Premature Termination in the Steroidogenic Acute Regulatory Protein Causing Congenital Lipoid Adrenal Hyperplasia

Department of Pediatrics (E.K.), Childrens Hospital of Cologne, D-50735 Cologne; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology (M.P., W.G.S.), University of Kiel; Department of Pediatric Endocrinology (O.H.), University of Lübeck; Department of Pediatric Surgery (B.M.U.), Childrens Hospital of Cologne; Department of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology and Endocrinology (B.P.H.), University of Essen; and Department of Veterinary Anatomy (M.B.), University of Giessen, Germany

Address all correspondence and requests for reprints to: Eckhard Korsch, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Childrens Hospital of Cologne, Amsterdamerstrasse 59, D-50735 Cologne, Germany.

Mutations in the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) gene cause congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia, characterized by diminished or absence of adrenal and gonadal steroids, resulting in severe adrenal insufficiency and ambiguous or complete female external genitalia in genetic males.

We report on a 15-yr-old 46,XY phenotypic female, referred because of lack of pubertal development. ACTH and gonadotropin concentrations were elevated; and aldosterone, cortisol and its precursors, and sex steroids before and after stimulation were below the lower limit of detection. In the StAR gene, a homozygous nonsense mutation (TGG TAG) in exon 7 (W250X) was identified. Histologic examination after gonadectomy showed seminiferous tubules containing immature Sertoli cells and a few single germ cells with positive placental-like alkaline phosphatase immunoreactivity, indicating carcinoma in situ.

This is the first report on testicular morphology, at a pubertal age, in a female patient with 46,XY karyotype and a mutation in the StAR gene, in whom gonadal neoplasia had developed.

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