Brain Pathology Case of the Month - July 1996

Contributed by Ronald L. Hamilton, M.D.



PATIENT HISTORY:

This 4 year old girl began to develop pubic hair around age 3 and by age 4 had developed breast buds. She was well above the 95th percentile in height and weight. A bone scan showed a bone age of 11 years. As part of the work-up for precocious puberty, she received an MRI scan of her brain. Following this, definitive surgery for the condition was performed.

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