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Musculoskeletal Imaging
Wasp-waist sign
a
radiographic
appearance seen, for example, in patients with
Klippel Feil syndrome
, resulting from fusion of the
vertebral bodies
such that the anteroposterior diameter at the level of the affected discovertebral joint is smaller than the diameter at the superior and inferior limits of the
vertebrae
adjacent to uninvolved discs.
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