Eagle Syndrome: A Comprehensive Review

Eagle Syndrome is a rare and poorly understood clinical condition that presents with a myriad of symptoms that typically include pain in the anterolateral neck. These symptoms are associated with an abnormal styloid process. Fig. 1 shows a schematic of normal anatomy along with an elongated styloid process. Eagle initially described a pain syndrome associated with an elongated styloid process in 1937 as “stylalgia” [1]. Eagle subsequently expanded on his initial descriptions [2–6]. Historically stylohyoid pain syndromes have been delineated based upon their etiology, i.e.

Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - May 6, 2017 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Arvind Badhey, Ameya Jategaonkar, Alexander Joseph Anglin Kovacs, Sameep Kadakia, Peter Paul De Deyn, Yadranko Ducic, Stimson Schantz, Edward Shin Tags: Review Article Source Type: research