PEDIATRICS Vol. 64 No. 1 July 1979, pp. 126
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Letters to the Editor

James M. Horner MD1, Arni V. Thorsson MD1, and Raymond L. Hintz MD1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305

Dr. Schmitt makes some interesting points in his comments about our article. First of all, he finds it remarkable that our clinic has had experiences with 149 children with constitutional short stature (CSS) and none with familial short stature (FSS). If that were true, it would indeed be remarkable. There seems to be a semantic problem arising over our definitions of CSS and FSS. We defined our children as having CSS if they had heights greater than 2 SD below the mean, any retardation in skeletal maturation, no family history of abnormal short stature, and no pathologic etiology for the short stature.