Demographics, presentation and symptoms of patients with Klippel-Feil syndrome: analysis of a global patient-reported registry

Nouri, Aria; Patel, Kishan; Evans, Hardy; Saleh, Mohamed; Kotter, Mark R N; Heary, Robert F; Tessitore, Enrico; Fehlings, Michael G; Cheng, Joseph S

doi:10.1007/s00586-019-06084-0

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Demographics, presentation and symptoms of patients with Klippel-Feil syndrome: analysis of a global patient-reported registry

ContributorsNouri, Aria; Patel, Kishan; Evans, Hardy; Saleh, Mohamed; Kotter, Mark R N; Heary, Robert F; Tessitore, Enrico; Fehlings, Michael G; Cheng, Joseph S

Published inEuropean Spine Journal, vol. 28, no. 10, p. 2257-2265

Publication date2019

Abstract

Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) occurs due to failure of vertebral segmentation during development. Minimal research has been done to understand the prevalence of associated symptoms. Here, we report one of the largest collections of KFS patient data.

Keywords

Cervical spine
Clinical presentation
Congenital
Demographics
Klippel-Feil syndrome
Pain
Adolescent
Adult
Congenital Abnormalities/epidemiology
Dizziness/epidemiology
Fatigue/epidemiology
Female
Humans
Klippel-Feil Syndrome/classification/epidemiology
Male
Multimorbidity
Prevalence
Range of Motion, Articular
Registries
Scapula/abnormalities
Shoulder Joint/abnormalities

NoteThis article has been commented by Hu B, Zhou H, Zou X. doi: 10.1007/s00586-019-06228-2. PMID: 31773276. The authors have replied to the comments in a new paper: Nouri A. Answer to the Letter to the Editor of B. Hu et al. concerning "Demographics, presentation and symptoms of patients with Klippel-Feil syndrome: analysis of a global patient-reported registry" by Nouri et al. [Eur Spine J; (2019) 28(10): 2257-2265]. Eur Spine J. 2020 Feb;29(2):385. doi: 10.1007/s00586-019-06230-8. Epub 2019 Nov 26. PMID: 31773274. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:158171

Affiliation entities

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département des neurosciences cliniques

Research groups

Groupe Schaller Karl Lothard (neurochirurgie) (851)

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NOURI, Aria et al. Demographics, presentation and symptoms of patients with Klippel-Feil syndrome: analysis of a global patient-reported registry. In: European Spine Journal, 2019, vol. 28, n° 10, p. 2257–2265. doi: 10.1007/s00586-019-06084-0

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PID : unige:143949
DOI : 10.1007/s00586-019-06084-0
PMID : 31363914

Journal ISSN0940-6719

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Demographics, presentation and symptoms of patients with Klippel-Feil syndrome: analysis of a global patient-reported registry

Klippel-Feil syndrome (KFS) occurs due to failure of vertebral segmentation during development. Minimal research has been done to understand the prevalence of associated symptoms. Here, we report one of the largest collections of KFS patient data.

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