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Consecutive patients with VOT presenting to our endocrine center between 2002 and 2017 were included. Our study included 13 patients of VOT. Out of 13 patients, two were postmenopausal. All patients in the reproductive age group had secondary amenorrhea except one who presented with primary amenorrhea. Modified\n                    <jats:italic>F<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>G<\/jats:italic>\n                    score (mFG) at presentation was 24\u2009\u00b1\u20094.3 and all patients had severe hirsutism (mFG \u226515). Change in voice (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u200911) and clitoromegaly (\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u2009=\u20097) were the other most common virilising symptoms. Duration of symptoms varied from 4 to 48 months. Median serum total testosterone level at presentation was 5.6\u2009ng\/mL with severe hyperandrogenemia (serum testosterone \u22652\u2009ng\/mL) but unsuppressed gonadotropins in all patients. Transabdominal ultrasonography (TAS) detected VOT in all except one. Ten patients underwent unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy whereas three patients (peri- or postmenopausal) underwent total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Seven patients had Sertoli Leydig cell tumor, three had steroid cell tumor and two had Leydig cell tumor and one had miscellaneous sex cord stromal tumor. All patients had normalization of serum testosterone after tumor excision. In conclusion, VOTs present with severe hyperandrogenism and hyperandrogenemia. Sertoli Leydig cell tumor is the most common histological subtype. Surgery is the treatment of choice with good surgical outcome.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1530\/ec-18-0360","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,1]],"date-time":"2018-11-01T18:44:42Z","timestamp":1541097882000},"page":"1362-1369","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1530\/crossmarkpolicy-10","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Virilising ovarian tumors: a single-center experience"],"prefix":"10.1530","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Manjeetkaur","family":"Sehemby","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1Department of Endocrinology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Prachi","family":"Bansal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1Department of Endocrinology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vijaya","family":"Sarathi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"2Department of Endocrinology, Narayana Medical College, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ashwini","family":"Kolhe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3Department of Pathology, Seth GS Medical college and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kanchan","family":"Kothari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"3Department of Pathology, Seth GS Medical college and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Swati","family":"Jadhav-Ramteke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1Department of Endocrinology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anurag R","family":"Lila","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1Department of Endocrinology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tushar","family":"Bandgar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1Department of Endocrinology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nalini S","family":"Shah","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1Department of Endocrinology, Seth GS Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"416","reference":[{"key":"ref61","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2584","DOI":"10.1210\/jc.2012-1683","article-title":"Management of postmenopausal virilization","volume":"97","year":"2012","journal-title":"Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism"},{"key":"ref181","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"86","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ygyno.2008.12.007","article-title":"Patterns of metastasis in sex cord-stromal tumors of the ovary: can routine staging lymphadenectomy be omitted?","volume":"113","year":"2009","journal-title":"Gynecologic Oncology"},{"key":"ref281","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"69","DOI":"10.1016\/S0015-0282(16)47960-4","article-title":"Ovarian and adrenal vein steroids in patients with nonneoplastic hyperandrogenism: selective catheterization findings","volume":"42","year":"1984","journal-title":"Fertility and Sterility"},{"key":"ref21","first-page":"2578","article-title":"Clinical practice. 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