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An 8-year-old girl with congenital deafness and musculoskeletal abnormalities
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An 8-year-old girl with right-sided congenital deafness was investigated for impaired movement of the right shoulder.
A frontal X-ray of the chest and upper abdomen (figure 1) demonstrated a levoconvex cervicothoracic scoliosis with multi-level hemivertebrae. There was also a chest wall abnormality, with congenital fusion of ribs on the right side. The right scapula was noted to lie in an abnormally high …
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Contributors KC and LJA contributed equally to this article. CB is the clinician responsible for the care of this patient and provided the details of the clinical history.
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Competing interests None.
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Patient consent Obtained.
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Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.