Ovarian steroid cell tumor causing isosexual pseudoprecocious puberty in a young girl: an instructive case and literature review.

Background: Steroid cell tumors (SCTs) are very rare sex cord-stromal tumors and account only for less than 0.1% of ovarian neoplasms. SCTs might comprise diverse steroid-secreting cells; hence, the characteristic clinical features were affected by their propensity to secrete a variety of hormones rather than mass effect resulting in compression symptoms and signs.

Stress hyperglycemia as first sign of asymptomatic type 1 diabetes: an instructive case.

Background: Stress hyperglycemia (SH) is considered a transient manifestation and routine diagnostic evaluation was thought to be unnecessary due to the lack of definite correlation with diabetes mellitus (DM). Although SH was usually benign and long-term treatment was superfluous, it might be the first sign of insulinopenic status such as type 1 DM (T1DM).

Case Presentation: We reported a boy with acute asthma attack presented incidentally with high blood glucose levels exceeding 300 mg/dL and obvious glycemic variability.