Author(s)

Mahammad Davudov^*, Surayya Isgandarova, Parvin Hasanova

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku, Azerbaijan.

Eagle’s syndrome is symptomatic of the styloid process (SP) elongation or calcification of the stylohyoid and stylomandibular ligaments. As a result of Eagle’s various studies, 4 out of every 100 patients showed that the styloid process was long. However only 4% of these cases are symptomatic [1]. Surgical traumas such as tonsillectomy or stylomandibular chronic irritation of the ligament, proc. of styloideusosteitis, ossifying periosteitis, tendinitis or mucositis why could it be [2]. The main symptoms are facial pain, dysphagia, sore throat, earache and headache. It may be unilateral or bilateral. The styloid process can be shortened through an intraoral or external approach. The case of Eagle syndrome in a 39-year-old female patient who was diagnosed to have bilateral elongated.

Eagle’s Syndrome, Throat Pain, Elongated Styloid Process, Extraoral Approach

Davudov, M. , Isgandarova, S. and Hasanova, P. (2023) Eagle’s Syndrome: A Case Report of a Bilateral Elongated Styloid Process. International Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery, 12, 405-410. doi: 10.4236/ijohns.2023.126044.