Takeda T, Takasu N, Yamauchi K, Komiya I, Ohtsuka H, Nagasawa Y, Ohara N, Yamada T
Department of Geriatrics, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Matsumoto, Japan.
Intern Med. 1992 Mar;31(3):394-6. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.31.394.
A patient with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia (Kallmann's syndrome) is described. Anosmia has been believed to be due to hypoplasia of the rhinencephalon. This anatomical defect was demonstrated in vivo in a patient with Kallmann's syndrome by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).