[A clinical, histological, and biochemical study of ovarian arrhenoblastomas: with reference to one case]

The authors review the literature in relation to a detailed study of an ovarian arrhenoblastoma operated on in a young patient who subsequently became pregnant twice, one of these pregnancies developing to full term. This review makes it possible to formulate certain anatomopathological ideas, and above all makes it clear that complete endocrine studies are infrequently carried out. It has been shown in cases of arrhenoblastoma that some of the anomalies of steroidogenesis are secondary to the enzyme disorders, the impression being that, with this kind of tumour, the tumour parenchyma begins to secrete like a normal testicle.