Abstract

OVARIAN STEROID CELL TUMOR, NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, A RARE CAUSE OF VIRILIZATION IN A POSTMENOPAUSAL FEMALE: CASE REPORT

Dr. Ruby Sahu*

ABSTRACT

Steroid cell tumors of the ovary are rare sex cord stromal tumor accounting for less than 0.1% of all ovarian neoplasms. These tumors have been categorised into stromal luteoma, leydig cell tumor and not otherwise specified based on their cell of origin.[1] Of these subtypes steroid cell tumor, NOS constitutes about 56% of steroid cell tumors.[2] It has propensity to secrete steroid hormones that often produces characteristic clinical syndrome.[3] The majority of tumor occurs in premenopausal females with mean age of 43 years, in which 70% patients present with excess testosterone causing virilization or hirsutism. Here, we report a rare case of steroid cell tumor, NOS of ovary diagnosed in 52 years postmenapausal women presenting with hirsutism and virilization.

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