Ovarian Steroid Cell Tumor About a Case

Tumors of the sex cords and stroma of the ovary are relatively rare, accounting for around 8% of all primary ovarian tumors. Steroid cell tumors of the ovary are rare, accounting for less than 0.1% of all ovarian tumors. The majority of these tumors produce steroid hormones, and only 10-15% of patients are asymptomatic. Although steroid cell tumors are generally benign, there is a risk of malignant transformation. Surgery is the main treatment. We report a case of a steroid cell tumour of the left ovary discovered on anatomopathological examination of the left adnexectomy operative specimen in a 47-year-old hypertensive diabetic patient who clinically presented with virilism with severe hirsutism, muscular and clitoral hypertrophy and frontotemporal baldness, and biologically increased androgens without associated hypercorticism, and in whom an abdomino-pelvic scanner showed a left latero-uterine mass measuring 74x66x64 mm, pelvic MRI showed a polylobed left ovarian mass classified ORADS 5, measuring 53x65x87 mm. After histological confirmation of the diagnosis, the patient was taken back for total surgery with total hysterectomy, right adnexectomy, omentectomy, appendectomy, multiple peritoneal biopsies, with no signs of malignancy on histological examination, simple postoperative follow-up and our patient placed under surveillance.