Case Report
Unilateral elongated styloid process: a case report
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* Corresponding author: George K Paraskevas g_paraskevas@yahoo.gr
Department of Anatomy, Medical Faculty of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, PO Box 300, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece
Cases Journal 2009, 2:9135 doi:10.1186/1757-1626-2-9135
Published: 3 December 2009Abstract
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.