Klippel-Feil syndrome with osteopoikilosis in a young lady and her four female relatives with osteopoikilosis.

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Osteopoikilosis is a rare, usually asymptomatic, autosomal dominant bone disorder, which is usually found incidentally on X-ray. Klippel-Feil syndrome is a rare disorder characterized by the congenital fusion of any two of the seven cervical (neck) vertebrae. It is caused by a failure in the normal segmentation or division of the cervical vertebrae during the early weeks of fetal development. In this case report,...

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