webbed neck
{{short description|Clinical feature consisting of a congenital skin fold on the sides of the neck}}
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| name = Webbed neck
| synonyms = Pterygium colli deformity
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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.
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|date=March 2019}}
=Associated conditions=
It is a feature of Turner syndrome{{cite journal |vauthors=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}} (only found in girls) and Noonan syndrome,{{cite journal |vauthors=Qian JG, Wang XJ |title= Noonan syndrome and correction of the webbed neck |journal=Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=316–9 |year=2007 |pmid=17293292 |doi=10.1016/j.bjps.2006.02.008 }} as well as the rarer Klippel–Feil syndrome,{{cite journal |vauthors=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 |issn=1545-1569|url-access=subscription }} or Diamond–Blackfan anemia.{{Cite web|url=https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/diamond-blackfan-anemia|title=Diamond-Blackfan anemia|last=Reference|first=Genetics Home|website=Genetics Home Reference|language=en|access-date=2017-06-10}}
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{{Congenital malformations and deformations of ear, face and neck}}