A Case of the Elongated Styloid Process |
Sung Il Kim, MD1, Jin Koo Kim, MD1, Yun Jo Jung, MD2, and Ji Il Chun, MD1 |
1;Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, 2;Department of Otolaryngology, Je Il Hospital, Pusan, Korea |
異常(長大) 莖狀突起症의 1例 |
金聲一1 · 金鎭龜1 · 鄭輪朝2 · 全之一1 |
慶熙大學校 醫科大學 耳鼻咽喉科學敎室1;釜山第一病院 耳鼻咽喉科2; |
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ABSTRACT |
The elongated styloid process is rare. The syndrome associated with the elongated styloid process was first described by Eagle in 1937. Most patients remain asymptomatic, but some complain pain and sensation of foreign body in the throat, dysphagia and ipsilateral otalgia. The symptoms are secondary to physical irritation of the nerves and vessels which pass close to the tip of the styloid process. Recently, we have experienced a case of the styloid process which is protruded into the left tonsil.
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