PEDIATRICS Vol. 39 No. 6 June 1967, pp. 943-944
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Skin Dimples

ROBERT TUTTLE M.D., F.R.C.P.(C)1

1 Department of Radiology, St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario

In Doctor Keith Hammond's brief report concerning skin dimples and rubella1 in the February issue of Pediatrics he states that no one has reported a peculiar, discrete, deep dimpling of the skin over the patella and certain bony prominences as a physical finding of early infancy.

This statement is somewhat unusual in that this phenomena has been well described by Doctor Caffey and is well illustrated in his textbook of Paediatric X-ray Diagnosis, fourth edition, where these characteristic dimples have been seen in infants suffering from prenatal bowing which commonly regresses during early childhood.