Surgical treatment of elongated styloid process: experience of 61 cases.
OBJECTIVE
To describe the management of patients with elongated styloid process syndrome (Eagle's syndrome).


METHODS
Sixty-one patients with elongated styloid process were treated between 2000 and 2005. Computed tomography examination defines those whose symptoms suggest the diagnosis. Patients with styloid processes longer than 25 mm were treated by surgical resection.


RESULTS
Fifty-seven (93.4%) of 61 patients treated for Eagle's syndrome became asymptomatic after resection. There were no serious complications.


CONCLUSIONS
Patients with clinically and radiologically established elongated styloid process can be managed successfully by surgical resection using an external approach.
Ceylan
Alper
A
Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
Köybaşioğlu
Ahmet
A
Celenk
Fatih
F
Yilmaz
Oğuz
O
Uslu
Sabri
S