Elongated styloid process: literature review and morphometric data on a collection of dried skulls

Eagle's syndrome (elongated styloid process)

Eagle's syndrome occurs when an elongated styloid process or calcified stylohyoid ligament causes recurrent throat pain or foreign body sensation, dysphagia, or facial pain. Additional symptoms may include neck or throat pain with radiation to the ipsilateral ear. In adults, the styloid process is approximately 2.5 cm long, and its tip is located between the external and internal carotid arteri...

Unilateral elongated styloid process: a case report

An unusual case of a unilaterally elongated styloid process with a length of 5.8 cm was found on a dry skull of a male cadaver. During his life the subject was complaining for reported ipsilateral otalgia presumably due to nerve compression from the elongated styloid process. The symptomatology appeared by such an anatomical variant as well as relative literature is discussed in this paper.

Bilaterally Elongated Styloid Process - A Case Report

Styloid process a slender pointed piece of bone projects downwards from the inferior surface of temporal bone and serves as an anchor point for muscles and ligaments. Elongated styloid process bilaterally was found in a dry human skull during a routine osteology class for undergraduate students. The length of styloid process on left side was 5.5 cm and on right side was 6 cm. The styloid proces...

Bilaterally Elongated Styloid Process – A Case Report

Elongated styloid process ( eagle,s syndrome): A case report

The patient is a 19 year old man from Kerman. His chief complain is dysphagia and a stabbing unilateral sore throat for the past two years. His other symptoms  are painful sensation in the right tonsilar fossa, painful deglutioon and sensation of pain which increases and radiates during speaking, physical excretion and deep breathing . Patient admitted that he has had several periods of hospita...