Hyperostosis frontalis interna associated with hypogonadism in an elderly man

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 202-203

  Yamakawa, Kentaro ^a,b   Mizutani, Kotaro ^b   Takahashi, Makio ^a,b   Matsui, Masaru ^a,b   Mezaki, Takahiro ^a,b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Sakakibara Hakuho Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elderly; Frontal bone; Hyperostosis frontalis interna; Male; Primary hypogonadism

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELDERLY CARE; FATALITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FRONTAL BONE; HEMIPARESIS; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HYPERGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPEROSTOSIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OSTEOSCLEROSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FATAL OUTCOME; FRONTAL BONE; HUMANS; HYPEROSTOSIS FRONTALIS INTERNA; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; TESTOSTERONE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644984901     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afj051     Document Type: Article

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