Disc prolapse and cord contusion in a case of Klippel-Feil syndrome following minor trauma

Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) is defined as congenital fusion of two or more cervical vertebrae and patients with KFS are frequently asymptomatic. However, these patients are especially prone to cervical cord injury after a minor fall or a major traumatic episode. We report an unusual case of KFS wher...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Amit, Badve, Arvind M, Swarnkar, Nikhil, Sarda, Kaustubh
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19838373
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.50857
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author Agrawal, Amit
Badve, Arvind M
Swarnkar, Nikhil
Sarda, Kaustubh
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description Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) is defined as congenital fusion of two or more cervical vertebrae and patients with KFS are frequently asymptomatic. However, these patients are especially prone to cervical cord injury after a minor fall or a major traumatic episode. We report an unusual case of KFS where the patient had disc prolapse between two Klippel-Feil segments and discuss the difficulties in the management of this case.
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spelling pubmed-27622602009-10-16 Disc prolapse and cord contusion in a case of Klippel-Feil syndrome following minor trauma Agrawal, Amit Badve, Arvind M Swarnkar, Nikhil Sarda, Kaustubh Indian J Orthop Case Report Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) is defined as congenital fusion of two or more cervical vertebrae and patients with KFS are frequently asymptomatic. However, these patients are especially prone to cervical cord injury after a minor fall or a major traumatic episode. We report an unusual case of KFS where the patient had disc prolapse between two Klippel-Feil segments and discuss the difficulties in the management of this case. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2762260/ /pubmed/19838373 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.50857 Text en © Indian Journal of Orthopaedics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Badve, Arvind M
Swarnkar, Nikhil
Sarda, Kaustubh
Disc prolapse and cord contusion in a case of Klippel-Feil syndrome following minor trauma
title Disc prolapse and cord contusion in a case of Klippel-Feil syndrome following minor trauma
title_full Disc prolapse and cord contusion in a case of Klippel-Feil syndrome following minor trauma
title_fullStr Disc prolapse and cord contusion in a case of Klippel-Feil syndrome following minor trauma
title_full_unstemmed Disc prolapse and cord contusion in a case of Klippel-Feil syndrome following minor trauma
title_short Disc prolapse and cord contusion in a case of Klippel-Feil syndrome following minor trauma
title_sort disc prolapse and cord contusion in a case of klippel-feil syndrome following minor trauma
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2762260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19838373
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5413.50857
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