[Disturbed growth in height in multiple cartilaginous exostoses (author's transl)]

Basing on the hypothesis that reduced body height in patients with multiple cartilaginous exostoses would be mainly accounted for by shorter extremities, not by a shorter trunk, the authors clinically examined 19 exostosis patients in respect of thigh, lower leg, upper and lower arm, as well as height of the seated patient. The dimensions were compared by the method of matched pairs, with 19 volunteers without diseased skeleton, who corresponded with one of the exostosis patients in respect of age, sex and height of seated patient. Results were evaluated according to Wilcoxon's test. This showed a statistically significant reduction in length of the extremities in adults with multiple cartilaginous exostoses.