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Full-Endoscopic Surgery for Hypothalamic Hamartoma Resection
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Surgical excision of hypothalamic hamartoma in a twenty months old boy with precocious puberty
Rajesh K Ghanta1, Kalyan Koti, Srikanth Kongara
1Department of Neurosurgery, Suraksha Neuro Center, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism
|October 27, 2011
Abstract:
A twenty months old boy presented to our department with true precocious puberty due to hypothalamic hamartoma. Total surgical excision of pedunculated hypothalamic hamartoma was done successfully by the pterional trans-sylvian approach as he could not afford medical management. Patient had uneventful post-operative course with normalization of serum testosterone levels and regression of secondary sexual characters.

