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This study aimed to create a pattern of face and body stature based on anthropometric measurements taken from a cohort of Polish patients with MPS IVA. Methods: Analysis of 11 somatometric and 14 craniofacial features was performed on 20 patients with MPS IVA, aged from 3 months to 26 years. The diagnosis of MPS IVA was confirmed by enzymatic and molecular analysis. Two-tailed t-tests were used to compare mean values for body length and weight at birth between the MPS IVA patients and the general population. To show the degree and direction of deviation z-scores were calculated and then used to construct a model of an average MPS IVA patient. Results: Mean values for body height and weight at birth were greater for boys than for the general population. The observed pattern of head and body shape indicated that dwarfism occurred with age as a result of the relatively short trunk and lower limbs. Skeletal abnormalities included a bell-shaped chest with the ratio of chest depth to chest width being significantly above the norm. The head and neck were relatively elongated, in comparison to body height, and tucked between narrow shoulders. The head had dolichocephalic shape, while the nose was short with wide nostrils. 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