A Case of Klippel-Feil Syndrome Causing a Mass Appearance in the Nape

Abstract

Klippel-Feil Syndrome Is a syndrome arising from insufficiency of the normal segmentation and cleavage of the cervical vertebrae in the early weeks of fetal development, accompanied by multisystem abnormalities. In this paper, we pm sent a 14-year-old subject who referred to the orthopedics clinic concerned about the swelling and the mass in the cervical region possibly being malignant.