Unsuspected Hyoid Bone Fracture Following a Sport Laryngeal Trauma

A 39 years old man sustained a fracture of the hyoid bone following closed neck injury while weight-lifting in the gym. Though commonly occurring in association of other neck fractures of the laryngeal skeleton, the fracture was isolated. Isolated hyoid bone fractures resulting from trauma other than strangulation are very rare, and occur more frequently in young men more than in women. These fractures are usually managed conservatively with good results, as indeed our case was.