Webbed neck
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.
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Other names | Pterygium colli deformity |
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Teenage girl with Turner syndrome and webbed neck | |
Specialty | Medical genetics |
Signs and symptoms
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 fold.[citation needed]
Associated conditions
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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