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. 2023 Jan;58(1):115-116.
doi: 10.5152/TurkArchPediatr.2022.22140.

Precocious Pseudo-Puberty in a 7-Year-Old Girl Due to Malignant Mixed Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor

Nicola Improda  1 , Francesco Rosanio  2 , Lucia De Martino  3 , Stefania Picariello  3 , Enza Mozzillo  2 , Adriana Franzese  2 , Lucia Quaglietta  3
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Precocious Pseudo-Puberty in a 7-Year-Old Girl Due to Malignant Mixed Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor

Nicola Improda et al. Turk Arch Pediatr. 2023 Jan.
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Figure 1.
Abdominal computed tomography images in the basal scan (A), arterial scan (B), coronal scan (C), and sagittal scan (D), demonstrating a large inhomogeneous vascularized (B) mass (star) connected through a peduncle to the left ovary (C, arrow), infiltrating the iliopsoas muscle (D, right arrow) and the abdominal wall (D, left arrow).
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