Radiological features of the skull in Klinefelter's syndrome and male hypogonadism.
Skull radiographs were performed in 21 cases of Klinefelter's syndrome and in 30 cases of eunuchoidism. The radiographic changes of the skull in Klinefelter's syndrome are: temporal flattening, decreased width of the vault, narrowing of the mandible, decreased length of the skull, shortening of the anterior fossa cranii, decrease in the angle of the base, thinning of the vault bones at the major fontanelle, premature and excessive calcification of the coronal suture, deepening of the posterior fossa and shortening of the mandibular rami. In hypogonadotropic eunuchoidism the skull radiographs show: small mastoid processes, fine bones of the vault, small sella turcica, club-shaped clinoid processes, excessive development of sphenoidal sinuses and in the fourth and later decades of life a diminished bone density (osteoporosis).
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002508:Cephalometry; D002648:Child; D003720:Densitometry; D005058:Eunuchism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006197:Hair; D006801:Humans; D007713:Klinefelter Syndrome / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008334:Mandible / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008416:Mastoid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D012658:Sella Turcica / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D012886:Skull / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging