[Growth in scoliotics].

The growth of a group of 151 French children suffering from scoliosis were studied and compared with the growth of similar children in Sweden and Germany. The aim was to establish whether or not French children had an acceleration of growth before and during the first phase of puberty as occurs in Germans and Swedes. It was demonstrated that the scoliotic group were significantly taller than a group of normal children. The excess of height was temporary in the upper segments of the trunk and seem to be related to an accelerated maturation but it was permanent in the lower segments of the trunk and seem to be related to a genetic causation. The pathology of this discussed.