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 appe...

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Autores principales: Paraskevas, George K, Raikos, Athanasios, Lazos, Loukas M, Kitsoulis, Panagiotis
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9135
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author Paraskevas, George K
Raikos, Athanasios
Lazos, Loukas M
Kitsoulis, Panagiotis
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Raikos, Athanasios
Lazos, Loukas M
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-28039322010-01-10 Unilateral elongated styloid process: a case report Paraskevas, George K Raikos, Athanasios Lazos, Loukas M Kitsoulis, Panagiotis Cases J 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. BioMed Central 2009-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2803932/ /pubmed/20062652 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9135 Text en Copyright ©2009 Paraskevas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Paraskevas, George K
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Lazos, Loukas M
Kitsoulis, Panagiotis
Unilateral elongated styloid process: a case report
title Unilateral elongated styloid process: a case report
title_full Unilateral elongated styloid process: a case report
title_fullStr Unilateral elongated styloid process: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Unilateral elongated styloid process: a case report
title_short Unilateral elongated styloid process: a case report
title_sort unilateral elongated styloid process: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20062652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9135
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