CONGENITAL STENOSIS OF MEDULLARY SPACES IN TUBULAR BONES AND CALVARIA IN TWO PROPORTIONATE DWARFS—MOTHER AND SON; COUPLED WITH TRANSITORY HYPOCALCEMIC TETANY

¹ From the Departments of Radiology and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh Medical School and Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Two proportionate dwarfs—mother and son—who had self-limited bouts of clinical tetany with hypocalcemia and hyperphosphatemia are reported.

The roentgenographic findings of the skeletal changes are described in detail and the malfunction of growth in different segments f the tubular bones and in the cal-varia, together with the possible role of the endocrine factors, are evaluated.

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