In utero virilization secondary to a maternal Krukenberg tumor: case report and review of literature
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Carmen Bustamante
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Daniela Pirela
Abstract
Background:
Krukenberg tumors are ovarian metastatic adenocarcinomas with a primary origin usually located in the stomach, colon, gallbladder, pancreas, or breast. Occasionally, these tumors produce virilization in the affected individual due to androgen production by luteinization of the tumoral stroma. It is believed that during pregnancy these tumors are more likely to increase androgen production due to the elevated levels of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG). High maternal androgens can cross the placenta producing virilization of the female fetus.
Case presentation:
A 46,XX newborn female, whose mother was diagnosed with a metastatic ovarian tumor during her second trimester of gestation associated with worsening hirsutism and acne, was found to have ambiguous genitalia at birth. Testosterone levels in both the mother and infant were elevated. Follow-up laboratory tests showed progressive normalization of circulating androgens after delivery.
Conclusions:
Krukenberg tumors are rare and may produce virilization of the mother and the female fetus when present during pregnancy.
Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.
Research funding: None declared.
Employment or leadership: None declared.
Honorarium: None declared.
Competing interests: The funding organization(s) played no role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the report for publication.
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- Frontmatter
- Original Articles
- High prevalence of organ specific autoantibodies in Indian type 1 diabetic patients
- Improved metabolic control in tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), responsive phenylketonuria with sapropterin administered in two divided doses vs. a single daily dose
- Excessive weight gain in exclusively breast-fed infants
- Comparison of Tanner staging of HIV-infected and uninfected girls at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku/Ozalla, Enugu, Nigeria
- Joint association of screen time and physical activity with anthropometric measures in Iranian children and adolescents: the weight disorders survey of the CASPIAN-IV study
- Assessment of insulin like growth factor-1 and IGF binding protein-3 in healthy Indian girls from Delhi and their correlation with age, pubertal status, obesity and thyroid hormonal status
- Impact of discontinuation of growth hormone treatment on lipids and weight status in adolescents
- Clinical, biochemical and genetic features with nonclassical 21-hydroxylase deficiency and final height
- A combined approach to generate laboratory reference intervals using unbalanced longitudinal data
- Clinical evaluation and mutational analysis of GALK and GALE genes in patients with galactosemia in Greece: one novel mutation and two rare cases
- Case Reports
- Pediatric toxic polycystic thyroid
- In utero virilization secondary to a maternal Krukenberg tumor: case report and review of literature
- Postprandial hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia in a child as a late complication of esophageal reconstruction
- Long-term follow-up of a child with Klinefelter syndrome and achondroplasia from infancy to 16 years
