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REPORT OF A CASE AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE, WITH A PATHOPHYSIOLOGIC EXPLANATION OF THE PRECOCIOUS SEXUAL SYNDROME

LAURENCE M. WEINBERGER, M.D.; FRANCIS C. GRANT, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1941;67(4):762-792.

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Though numerous endocrine disturbances occur with disease or tumors of the brain, none has a more intriguing interest or presents so challenging a problem with respect to its cause than precocious puberty.

There is at present a widely believed theory that it is caused in some way by tumors of, or in the region of, the pineal body. This association was first pointed out by Gutzeit,¹ but his case, viewed now, curiously does not appear to be a genuine instance of precocious puberty. The clinical and diagnostic features of "pinealism" were described by Frankl-Hochwart,² who wrote:

When one finds in a very young person (boy) along with the general symptoms of tumor, as well as the local signs of a lesion of the corpora quadrigemina, abnormal body growth, unusual growth of hair, adiposity, somnolence, premature genital and sexual development and, finally, intellectual maturity, one must think of a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO; PHILADELPHIA

From the Neurosurgical Service and Laboratory of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

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