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Klippel–Feil syndrome is a rare disease initially reported in 1912 by Maurice Klippel and André Feil from France characterized by the congenital fusion of any 2 of the 7 cervical vertebrae.The syndrome occurs in a heterogeneous group of patients unified only by the presence of a congenital defect in the formation or segmentation of the cervical spine. Klippel–Feil syndrome can be identified by shortness of the neck.
