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Klippel-Feil Syndrome A CONSTELLATION OF ASSOCIATED ANOMALIES
ROBERT N. HENSINGER; JOHN E. LANG; G. DEAN MACEWEN
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Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 1425 South Main Street, Walnut Creek, California 94596 Alfred I. duPont Institute, P. O. Box 269, Wilmington, Delaware 19899
1974 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Incorporated
The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.  1974; 56:1246-1253 
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Abstract

Of fifty patients with the diagnosis of Klippel-Feil syndrome, less than half had the classic clinical triad of findings, while more than half had scoliosis, and a third had renal anomalies. All patients were at risk of having other serious, but less apparent, anomalies, including: Sprengel's deformity (twenty-one patients), impairment of hearing (fifteen patients), synkinesia (nine patients), and congenital heart disease (seven patients). The discovery of one of these lesions should, therefore, stimulate a careful search for associated anomalies.

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