Year : 2010, Volume : 10, Issue : 2
First page : ( 107) Last page : ( 110)
Print ISSN : 0972-5687. Online ISSN : 0974-083X. Published online : 2010 June 1.

Unilateral Exceptionally Elongated Styloid Process

Jakhar JK Dr.^1,*, Khanagwal VP Dr.², Aggarwal AD Dr.³, Paliwal PK Dr.⁴, Dhattarwal SK Dr.⁵, SirohiwalL BJ Dr.⁶, Sharma L Dr.⁷

¹Senior Resident, Department of Forensic Medicine, Pt.B.D.Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana

²Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Pt.B.D.Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana

³Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Pt.B.D.Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana

⁴Senior Professor & Head, Department of Forensic Medicine, Pt.B.D.Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana

⁵Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Pt.B.D.Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana

⁶Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Pt.B.D.Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana

⁷Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Pt.B.D.Sharma, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana

*Email: jjakhar2008@yahoo.com

Received:  12  August,  2010; Revised:  17  October,  2010; Accepted:  15  November,  2010; :  25  December,  2010.

Abstract

The present case is regarding the incidental finding of a unilaterally elongated left styloid process with a length of 82 mm which was found during the autopsy of a male dead body in which the cause of death was hanging. A widespread terminology is found in the literature to express the elongation of styloid process. Reviewing articles we found that the length of the styloid process varies from 25 mm to 30 mm with 28 mm as the mean. Very few literatures cite the length of styloid process more than 50 mm.

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Keywords

Styloid, elongated, stylohyoid, eagle syndrome.

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