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To the Editor: Testicular lesions containing adrenal-like tissue can be found in some males with congenital adrenal hyperplasia.¹ These lesions are often multifocal and bilateral.² A young woman with congenital adrenal hyperplasia in whom virilization persisted after adrenalectomy was assumed to have adrenal-like cells in her ovaries, but their presence was not confirmed.³

We report here on a girl with congenital adrenal hyperplasia in whom ovarian tissue was found to contain adrenal-like tissue whose function was inhibited by dexamethasone. The patient was a 15-year-old girl with simple, virilizing congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase deficiency in whom control was poor, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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