[Body and craniofacial biometric study of 26 Klinefelter patients compared to 307 controls]

This paper concerns the comparison of two groups - 26 Klinefelter and 307 controls - on the basis of body and cranio-facial measurements. This biometric study leads to the following results: Proportionaly to the height, the biacromial diameter is smaller in Klinefelter but the arms length, antero-posterior thoracic diameter, bicrete diameter and bitrochanteric diameter are larger in Klinefelter. Concerning cranio-facial measurements, the nose width, eye intern angle width and ear height are larger in Klinefelter, but forehead width and lips height are smaller in Klinefelter. On the other hand, the correlations between the different cranio-facial measurements are all non negative in controls when some of these correlations are negative in Klinefelter, which may explain the facial disharmony observed in those individuals.