An 8-year-old girl with congenital deafness and musculoskeletal abnormalities

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 …