Diagnostic importance of 3D CT images in Klippel-Feil Syndrome with multiple skeletal anomalies: a case report

Korean J Radiol. 2005 Oct-Dec;6(4):278-81. doi: 10.3348/kjr.2005.6.4.278.

Abstract

We present here the case of a 12-year-old boy who had Klippel-Feil syndrome with renal, cardiac and multiple skeletal anomalies, and we show the relevent three-dimensional computed tomography images. Our patient had a triple renal pelvis, mitral valve prolapsus, multiple cervical vertebrae fusions, cervical ribs, hypoplasia of the right thumb, spina bifida of L5, lumbalization at the right side of S1 and a sacral curved defect. In this study, we discuss the atypical clinical features and the diagnostic value of three-dimensional CT for evaluating the skeletal anomalies of the Klippel-Feil syndrome cases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Bone and Bones / abnormalities
  • Bone and Bones / diagnostic imaging
  • Child
  • Humans
  • Imaging, Three-Dimensional
  • Klippel-Feil Syndrome / diagnostic imaging*
  • Male
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*