Virilization of mother and fetus associated with luteoma of pregnancy: A case report with endocrinologic studies

Abstract

INCONGRUITIES IN sexual characteristics have tong stimulated interest. Hermaphroditism was a common theme in Graeco-Roman culture,’ and de Ribiera painted the bearded Magdalena Ventura nursing her infant in 163 1.’ Virilization in pregnancy is rare and is usually of ovarian origin.3 Of 44 ovarian lesions causing virilization during gestation, Verhoev,en and associates” found eight luteomas of pregnancy. The following case illustrates the unusual occurrence of maternal and fetal virilization caused by a luteoma of pregnancy and extends the number and breadth of endocrinologic studies in patients with this uncommon entity.