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KMID : 0361419940180040849
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Journal of Korean Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine
1994 Volume.18 No. 4 p.849 ~ p.852
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Quadriplegia in a Kippel-Feil syndrome Associated with malformation of Vertebral Artery
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Abstract
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As well known, the original classic triad of features of Klippel-Feil syndrome are a short neck, a low posterior hairline, and a restricted range of motion of the neck. Certain of these patients are prone to associated abnormalities of the
central
nervous system as well as central stenosis and stenosis of the intervertebral foramen. It is reporting the risks for neurological damage ase due to abnormalities chter than the fusion pattern of the cervical vertebrae, commonly. However, the
possibility
of quadriplegia resulting from a minor trauma was less well recognized. We report a case of sudden quadriplegia after a minor injury of the neck in a patient with the Klippel-Feil syndrome accompanied with congenital malformation of vertebral
artery in
the proximal cervical spines. The purpose of this paper is to report a case of quadriplegia occurring in a patient with the Klippel-Feil syndrome having congenital vertebral artery malformation after only minor neck trauma, and to call attention
to
this
particularly dangerous problem in such patients.
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