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Webbed neck

**Webbed neck**
*Classification & external resources*
ICD-10	Q18.3
ICD-9	744.5

A webbed neck is a description of a skin fold that runs along the sides of the neck down to the shoulders. There are many variants.

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It is a feature of Turner syndrome and Noonan's syndrome, as well as the rarer Klippel-Feil syndrome.

It is often visible on babies, look like loose folds of skin on the childs neck. As the growth of the child occurs the skin stretches out to look like there is little or no neck.

v • d • e Congenital malformations and deformations of eye, ear, face and neck (Q10-Q18, 743-744)
Eyes	eyelid, lacrimal apparatus and orbit (Ptosis, Ectropion, Entropion, Distichia) Anophthalmia - Microphthalmia lens (Ectopia lentis, Aphakia) Aniridia - Buphthalmos - Hydrophthalmos - Keratoglobus - Coloboma
Ears	Microtia
Other face and neck	Otocephaly - Webbed neck - Microstomia - Macrocheilia
See also non-congenital eye and ear