Abstract
Acording to the result of periodic health examination of 6980 attending elementary school in Kochi pre. In 1990,we selected short stature children. 75 of 6980 are short stature children under -2SD from growth curve of japanese children. We found 4 pituitary dwarfism from them. It is possible to the total number of short stature children and the number of pituitary dwarfism in Kochi pre. From this epideminologic study.