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 **[http://path.upmc.edu/cases/case270/micro.html Sex cord stromal tumour with Sertoli-Leydig component - several images (upmc.edu)].
-==Pure Leydig cell tumour==
+==Hilus cell tumour==
+{{Main|Leydig cell tumour}}
+*[[AKA]] ''Leydig cell tumour''.<ref name=pmid19697637>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Zafrakas | first1 = M. | last2 = Venizelos | first2 = ID. | last3 = Theodoridis | first3 = TD. | last4 = Zepiridis | first4 = L. | last5 = Agorastos | first5 = T. | last6 = Bontis | first6 = JN. | title = Virilizing ovarian hilus (Leydig) cell tumor with concurrent contralateral hilus cell hyperplasia: a rare diagnosis. | journal = Eur J Gynaecol Oncol | volume = 30 | issue = 3 | pages = 338-40 | month =  | year = 2009 | doi =  | PMID = 19697637 }}</ref>
 ===General===
-*AKA ''Hilus cell tumour''.
+*Rare.<ref name=pmid19697637/>
+*May cause virilization.
+**Development of male (sexual) characteristics in a female.
-===Microscopy===
+===Microscopic===
-*Reinke crystalloids - in the cytoplasm of Leydig cells - ''[[testis]] article''.
+Features - see ''[[Leydig cell tumour]]'':
+*Moderate eosinophilic cytoplasm.
+*+/-Reinke crystalloids (cytoplasmic inclusions).
+DDx:
+*Hilus hyperplasia.
+*[[Sertoli-Leydig tumour]].
 =Benign=