<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Articles JournalTitle="Acta Medica Iranica">
  <Article>
    <Journal>
      <PublisherName>Tehran University of Medical Sciences</PublisherName>
      <JournalTitle>Acta Medica Iranica</JournalTitle>
      <Issn>0044-6025</Issn>
      <Volume>57</Volume>
      <Issue>12</Issue>
      <PubDate PubStatus="epublish">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>06</Month>
        <Day>13</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </Journal>
    <title locale="en_US">A Rare Case Report of Postmenopausal Virilization: Ovarian Steroid Cell Tumor</title>
    <FirstPage>728</FirstPage>
    <LastPage>730</LastPage>
    <AuthorList>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Mahbube</FirstName>
        <LastName>Ebrahimpur</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Internal Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Mohammad Reza</FirstName>
        <LastName>Mohajeri-Tehrani</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Science Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Hiva</FirstName>
        <LastName>Saffar</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Pathology, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
      <Author>
        <FirstName>Mahnaz</FirstName>
        <LastName>Pejman Sani</LastName>
        <affiliation locale="en_US">Department of Internal Medicine, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.</affiliation>
      </Author>
    </AuthorList>
    <History>
      <PubDate PubStatus="received">
        <Year>2019</Year>
        <Month>01</Month>
        <Day>28</Day>
      </PubDate>
      <PubDate PubStatus="accepted">
        <Year>2020</Year>
        <Month>04</Month>
        <Day>24</Day>
      </PubDate>
    </History>
    <abstract locale="en_US">Ovarian steroid cell tumors are rare, life-threatening neoplasms that make about 0.1% of all primary ovarian tumors. They frequently present in premenopausal women with the manifestation of virilization. We report a 58-year-old postmenopausal woman that referred to our clinic with clinical manifestation of virilization. Laboratory findings showed markedly elevated serum testosterone level and ultrasound showed 2 follicles with 7 mm diameters in the left ovary. She treated by bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy and synchronous hysterectomy. Histological pathology confirmed a benign steroid cell tumor. The presentation of new-onset and rapid progressive hyperandrogenism is rare in postmenopausal women. In diagnosis, we must consider adrenal and ovarian malignancies. Stromal luteoma is a rare benign ovarian tumor, Which is treated with surgical treatment.</abstract>
    <web_url>https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/7730</web_url>
    <pdf_url>https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/download/7730/5355</pdf_url>
  </Article>
</Articles>
