Sprengel's deformity

Sprengel's deformity is a relatively rare and congenital skeletal abnormality where a person has one shoulder blade that sits higher on the back than the other.

Presentation
The scapula is small and rotated so that its inferior edge points toward the spine. There is a high coorelation between Sprengel's deformity and the Klippel-Feil syndrome.

Sometimes a a bony connection is present between the elevated scapula and one of the cervical vertebrae, usually C5 or C6. This connection is known as the omovertebral bone.

Eponym
It is named for Otto Sprengel.