Synonyms: Congenital cervical vertebral fusion | Congenital fused cervical segments | Klippel-Feil malformation | Klippel-Feil sequence
Klippel-Feil Syndrome is characterised by improper segmentation of cervical segments resulting in congenitally fused cervical vertebrae.
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