Figure 1.

Photographs of a female patient with achondroplasia standing beside her mother at age 13 (left) and at age 17 (right). Her height increased from 4′ (122 cm) before lengthening to 5′1.5″ (156 cm) after two lower-limb 2-segment lower-limb adolescent-onset lengthenings totaling 10.25″ (26 cm). She also had 10 cm of lengthening of her humeri.