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Klippel-Feil Syndrome

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = A condition characterized by shortness of the neck resulting from reduction in the number of vertebrae or the fusion of multiple hemivertebrae into one osseous mass. The hairline is low and the motion of the neck is limited.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.1247, 1942-1943

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1247
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, notes, drawings, photographic negatives, photographs and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 37 at first examination in 1942. Conditions mentioned include: meningocele; spasticity; ataxia; unsteadiness; and Klippel Feil syndrome. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1942-1943

PR2.1619, 1943-1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.1619
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, reports, charts, photographs and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 39 at first examination in 1943. Conditions mentioned include: headache; diplopia; Klippel-Feil syndrome; Arnold Chiari syndrome; and hypoplasia. Surgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1943-1953

PR2.3725, 1945

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.3725
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to male from Great Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 54 at first examination in 1945. Conditions mentioned include: diplopia; syringomyelia; syringobulbia; and Klippel-Feil malformation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1945

PR2.4380, 1946

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.4380
Scope and Contents

Notes, report and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 14 at first examination in 1946. Conditions mentioned include: intellectual backwardness; hydrocephalus; Klippel-Feil syndrome; fits; and epilepsy. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1946

PR2.6945, 1948

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.6945
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 17 at first examination in 1948. Conditions mentioned include: congenital deformity; Arnold Chiari malformation; spinal cord compression; mental disability; and Klippel Feil deformity. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hosiptal.

Dates: 1948

PR2.9544, 1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9544
Scope and Contents

Correspondence relating to male patientfrom Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 4 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: headache; and myasthenic syndrome. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951

PR2.9736, 1951-1952

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.9736
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, note, reports and correspondence relating to female patientfrom Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 10 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; difficulty walking; nystagmus; headache; congenital Arnold-Chiari; hydrocephalus; dysrhythmia; Klippel Feil; cervical spina bifida; contusional brain stem damage; and diastasis of coronal suture. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1951-1952

PR2.12634, 1953-1961

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12634
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, notes, reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 41 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: backache; sciatca; prolapsed intervertebral disc; limb weakness; Klippel-Feil deformity; spondylolistheis; and hypertrophic rhinitis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1953-1961

PR2.16937, 1956-1960

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.16937
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, correspondence, notes, charts, reports, and black-and-white photographs relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 43 at first examination in 1956. Conditions mentioned include: klippel-feil deformity; cervical spondylosis; and osteophytosis. Surgical treatment and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1956-1960

'Spinal cord lesions caused by cervical dislocation in two cases with Klippel-Feil syndrome', undated

 File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.53
Scope and Contents

Lecture by Norman Dott, 'Spinal cord lesions caused by cervical dislocation in two cases with Klippel-Feil syndrome'. The paper is undated but it was written after 1949.

Dates: undated