PEDIATRICS Vol. 20 No. 2 August 1957, pp. 268-271
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OBSERVATIONS ON THE ETIOLOGY OF DWARFISM IN CONGENITAL TELANGIECTATIC ERYTHEMA

D. A. Hillman M.D.1, J. D. Crawford M.D.1, and N. B. Talbot M.D.1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and the Children's Medical Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

The case history of a boy with growth retardation, caloric undernutrition, telangiectatic skin lesions on the face and areas of altered skin pigmentation is presented. Administration of cortisone resulted in improvement of the appetite and significant weight gains. Following discontinuation of cortisone therapy, spurts in linear growth were observed which appeared to be limited and probably related to the utilization of fat deposits accumulated during an earlier period of cortisone administration.

It is concluded that the short stature observed in this patient was a function of caloric undernutrition.

Submitted on November 15, 1956
Accepted on February 1, 1957