Congenital Midline Cervical Cleft: Diagnosis, Pathologic Findings, and Early Stage Treatment

• Main Authors: Xenophon Sinopidis (Author), Helen P. Kourea (Author), Antonios Panagidis (Author), Vasileios Alexopoulos (Author), Sotirios Tzifas (Author), Gabriel Dimitriou (Author), George Georgiou (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Congenital midline cervical cleft is a very uncommon malformation of the anterior neck, with less than 100 cases reported in medical literature. Herein we present a case of a female neonate with this anomaly. A detailed description of the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics is performed. As...