title: Report of a girl with Klippel-feil syndrome and Poland anomaly.
abstract: Report of a girl with Klippel-feil syndrome and Poland anomaly: Klippel-Feil syndrome, consisting of the triad of a short neck, low posterior hairline, and limitation of neck movement, is a congenital anomaly characterized by the fusion of cervical vertebrae, Poland anomaly consists of unilateral aplasia of the chest wall muscles and ipsilateral anomalies of upper extremity. We report a 7-year-old girl with typical findings of Klippel-Feil syndrome and Poland anomaly. To the best of our knowledge a case of Klippel-Feil syndrome and Poland anomaly has not been described before, although a combination of Poland, Klippel-Feil and Moebius anomalies has been reported in the literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Yüzüncü Yil University, Faculty of Medicine, Van, Turkey.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Erol
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Caksen
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Atik
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Unal
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Odabaş
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000002:abnormalities; D002574:Cervical Vertebrae / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007714:Klippel-Feil Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000473:pathology; D011045:Poland Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000235:genetics*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D035441:Thoracic Wall; D013909:Thorax / Q000002:abnormalities; D034941:Upper Extremity