Midline Cervical Cleft

Abstract

An one-year-old girl had a cutaneous anomaly on the midline of her neck. The lesion extended from beneath the chin vertically down to the jugulum. The skin of the lesion was a characteristically excavated red area with a fairly thin surface and there was a tab like protrusion at the cephalic end. Neither an underlying cord formation nor fistulla was present. The child seemed to be completely normal except for this anomaly. The lesion with all the fibrotic tissue was excised and reconstruction using two Z-plasties was done with good results.