diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md
index 80e9d0c7b9..1493d9d016 100644
--- a/doc/api/fs.md
+++ b/doc/api/fs.md
@@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ added: v0.1.95
 * `callback` {Function}
 
 Asynchronous fstat(2). The callback gets two arguments `(err, stats)` where
-`stats` is a [`fs.Stats`][] object. `fstat()` is identical to [`stat()`][],
+`stats` is an [`fs.Stats`][] object. `fstat()` is identical to [`stat()`][],
 except that the file to be stat-ed is specified by the file descriptor `fd`.
 
 ## fs.fstatSync(fd)
@@ -1521,8 +1521,7 @@ added: v0.0.2
 * `callback` {Function}
 
 Asynchronous stat(2). The callback gets two arguments `(err, stats)` where
-`stats` is a [`fs.Stats`][] object.  See the [`fs.Stats`][] section for more
-information.
+`stats` is an [`fs.Stats`][] object.
 
 In case of an error, the `err.code` will be one of [Common System Errors][].