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Bilateral calcified stylohyoid ligament: An incidental autopsy finding with medicolegal significance
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Bilateral calcified stylohyoid ligament: An incidental autopsy finding with medicolegal significance

P.P. Jagadish Rao, Ritesh G. Menezes, Ramadas Naik, Anand Venugopal, K.R. Nagesh, Sampath Madhyastha, Tanuj Kanchan, Astha Gupta and Savita Lasrado
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan), Vol.12(4), pp.184-187
01/07/2010
PMID: 20378390

Abstract

Autopsy Eagle’s syndrome Medicolegal significance Stylohyoid ligament Styloid process
Eagle’s syndrome occurs due to elongation of the styloid process or calcification of the stylohyoid ligament, which then may produce a pain sensation due to pressure exerted on various structures in the head and neck region. A case report of calcified stylohyoid ligament found incidentally at autopsy and further confirmed by computed tomography scan and histopathology is herein discussed with associated medicolegal significance.

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