There are more than 140 references in the Quarterly Cumulative Index Medicus to papers on fusion of cervical vertebrae, including the KlippelFeil syndrome. A particularly useful review of the Klippel-Feil syndrome is that by Erskine (1946). He wrote that 'Essential features of the cervical deformity are synostosis of two or more cervical vertebrae and flattening and widening of the vertebrae bo...

The plantar reflex is one of most important and widely tested components of the neurological examination. We describe 3 subjects with Klippel-Feil syndrome and mirror movements where unilateral cutaneous stimulation of the foot leads to flexor plantar responses in both feet. We discuss the evidence which suggests that this "crossed flexor" plantar response reveals a transcortical pathway for th...

This is the first case description of the association of Klippel-Feil Syndrome (KFS), Tourette Syndrome (TS), Motor Stereotypies, and Obsessive Compulsive Behavior, with chromosome 22q11.2 Duplication Syndrome (22q11DupS). Neuropsychiatric symptoms in persons with 22q11.2 deletion, including obsessive compulsiveness, anxiety, hyperactivity, and one prior case report of TS, have been attributed ...