Webbed neck

Webbed neck

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Caption = Girl with Turner syndrome presenting with pterygium colli
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ICD9 = ICD9|744.5
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A webbed neck, or pterygium colli deformity, is a congenital skin fold that runs along the sides of the neck down to the shoulders. There are many variants.

Associated conditions

It is a feature of Turner syndromecite journal |author=Miller LB, Kanter M, Wolfort F |title=Treatment of webbed neck in Turner's syndrome with tissue expansion |journal=Ann Plast Surg |volume=24 |issue=5 |pages=447–50 |year=1990 |pmid=2350155 |doi=10.1097/00000637-199005000-00009] and Noonan syndrome,cite journal |author=Qian JG, Wang XJ |title=Noonan syndrome and correction of the webbed neck |journal=J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=316–9 |year=2007 |pmid=17293292 |doi=10.1016/j.bjps.2006.02.008 |url=http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1748-6815(06)00316-0] as well as the rarer Klippel-Feil syndrome.cite journal |author=Hikade KR, Bitar GJ, Edgerton MT, Morgan RF |title=Modified Z-plasty repair of webbed neck deformity seen in Turner and Klippel-Feil syndrome |journal=Cleft Palate Craniofac. J. |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=261–6 |year=2002 |pmid=12019001 |doi= 10.1597/1545-1569(2002)039<0261:MZPROW>2.0.CO;2|url=http://journals.allenpress.com/jrnlserv/?request=get-abstract&issn=1055-6656&volume=39&page=261]

Presentation

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.

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