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Clinical feature consisting of a congenital skin fold on the sides of the neck From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A webbed neck, or pterygium colli, is a congenital skin fold that runs along the sides of the neck down to the shoulders. There are many variants.
Webbed neck | |
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Other names | Pterygium colli deformity |
Teenage girl with Turner syndrome and webbed neck | |
Specialty | Medical genetics |
On babies, webbed neck may look like loose folds of skin on the neck. As the child grows, the skin may stretch out to look like there is little or no neck.[citation needed]
It is a feature of Turner syndrome[1] (only found in girls) and Noonan syndrome,[2] as well as the rarer Klippel–Feil syndrome,[3] or Diamond–Blackfan anemia.[4]
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