“…Final height attainment was found to be significantly reduced in both males and females with CCD, agreeing with previous observations LHultkrantz, 1908;Anspach and Huepel, 1935;Jackson, 1951;Thomsen and Guttadauro, 1952;DeWeerdt and Wildervanck, 1973;Hasler and Vandermer, 1974;Kerr, 19881 tions in which younger CCD patients were included indicate that birth lengths are normal [Kohler, 1939;Levin and Sonnenschein, 19631, but that height drops off below 2 SD between the ages of 4-8 years [Kempfle, 19651. Metric studies during the growth period in a larger sample of CCD patients is necessary to construct stature "norms" for CCD.…”