The anatomical basis of the symptoms of an elongated styloid process

Year 2017, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 32 - 35, 30.03.2017

Hüseyin Baylan

Abstract

The styloid process is a bony process of
the temporal bone of cranium. The stylohyoid ligament that attaches to the apex
of the process may also be seen ossified in various radiological images.  We can come across some variations about the
styloid process including solitary, duplicated, incomplete ossified, the
absence of an ossified process (unilateral or bilateral) and ossified
stylohyoid ligament in literature and clinical practice. The symptoms that
bring the patients with the elongated styloid process to medical centres are
mostly related to some neurovascular structures situated around this process.
Therefore understanding the anatomy of styloid process and around itself better is important to shorten the
diagnosis time of the clinician about the elongated styloid process.

Keywords

elongated styloid process, Eagle syndrome

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