title: Calcification of the stylohyoid ligament: incidence and morphoquantitative evaluations.
abstract: To study the incidence of calcification of the stylohyoid ligament, 286 orthopantomographs were analyzed. All patients had no symptoms. The total incidence of calcification was noted to be high, at 84.4%. The number and the length of calcifications increased with age, and there was no relationship to sex or mandibular size. The phenomenon is often evident bilaterally. The variety of results reported in the references depends on different criteria in radiographic evaluation and in patient selection.
authors.affiliation: Istituto di Anatomia Umana Normale, Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: V F
authors.initials: VF
authors.lastname: Ferrario
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sigurtá
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Daddona
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dalloca
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miani
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tafuro
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sforza
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006928:Hyoid Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015994:Incidence; D008022:Ligaments / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011862:Radiography, Panoramic; D013701:Temporal Bone / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging