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Musculoskeletal Diseases > Musculoskeletal Abnormalities > Klippel-Feil Syndrome
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Congenital Abnormalities > Musculoskeletal Abnormalities > Klippel-Feil Syndrome
Musculoskeletal Diseases > Bone Diseases > Bone Diseases, Developmental > Dysostoses > Klippel-Feil Syndrome

Preferred term

Klippel-Feil Syndrome  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Cervical Fusion Syndrome
  • Dystrophia Brevicollis Congenita
  • Dystrophia Brevicollis Congenitas
  • Klippel-Feil Sequence
  • Vertebral Cervical Fusion Syndrome

Note

  • short neck as result of vertebral abnorm; do not use /congen & do not coord with INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES

Scope note

  • A syndrome characterised by a low hairline and a shortened neck resulting from a reduced number of vertebrae or the fusion of multiple hemivertebrae into one osseous mass.

In other languages

  • Klippel-Feilin oireyhtymä

    Finnish

  • Feil
  • kaularangan fuusio
  • kaularangan fuusio-oireyhtymä
  • kaularangan fuusio-syndrooma
  • Klippel
  • Klippel-Feil
  • Klippel-Feilin syndrooma
  • syndroma fusionis cervicalis
  • syndroma Klippel-Feil
  • Klippel-Feils syndrom

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D007714

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