An Asymptomatic and Overelongated Styloid Process

Elongation of the styloid process is a rare condition. Only 4% of patients have clinical symptoms where elongated styloid process (ESP) occasionally irritates or disrupts adjacent anatomical structures, which is called Eagle syndrome. This present report was aimed at reporting an asymptomatic ESP wi...

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Autores principales: Soylu, Emrah, Altan, Ahmet, Sekerci, Ahmet Ercan, Akbulut, Nıhat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5299170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28246562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7971595
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author Soylu, Emrah
Altan, Ahmet
Sekerci, Ahmet Ercan
Akbulut, Nıhat
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description Elongation of the styloid process is a rare condition. Only 4% of patients have clinical symptoms where elongated styloid process (ESP) occasionally irritates or disrupts adjacent anatomical structures, which is called Eagle syndrome. This present report was aimed at reporting an asymptomatic ESP with unusual width and length.
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spelling pubmed-52991702017-02-28 An Asymptomatic and Overelongated Styloid Process Soylu, Emrah Altan, Ahmet Sekerci, Ahmet Ercan Akbulut, Nıhat Case Rep Dent Case Report Elongation of the styloid process is a rare condition. Only 4% of patients have clinical symptoms where elongated styloid process (ESP) occasionally irritates or disrupts adjacent anatomical structures, which is called Eagle syndrome. This present report was aimed at reporting an asymptomatic ESP with unusual width and length. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2017 2017-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5299170/ /pubmed/28246562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/7971595 Text en Copyright © 2017 Emrah Soylu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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