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| Year : 2012 |
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A patient with Eagle syndrome: Radiological and scintigraphic evaluation
Sisman Yildiray1, Gokce Cumali2, Ciftci Ismail3, Tarim Ertas Elif4
1 Department of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
2 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay, Turkey, Turkey
3 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Erciyes University, Kayseri, Turkey
4 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey
Correspondence Address:
Sisman Yildiray
Department of Oral Diagnosis and Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Erciyes University, Kayseri
Turkey
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DOI: 10.4103/0970-9290.100442
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A 42-year-old man who had been having otalgia and facial and neck pain for 6 months presented for a routine dental examination. He had suffered two head traumas, the first 20 years ago and the second 4 years ago. A panoramic radiograph (PR) was taken as a screening film after the clinical examination. Bilateral styloid process elongation (SPE) was detected, and the patient was diagnosed as having Eagle syndrome. The styloid process (SP) length was 78 mm on the right and 74 mm on the left on multislice computed tomography (MSCT). Bone scan of the cranium showed normal uptake of radiotracer in the cranial bones and some little activity was detected as a silhouette in the localization of SPE in planar and SPECT images. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case investigating SPE by bone scintigraphy in a patient with Eagle syndrome. |
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