Stylohyoid Syndrome and its Surgical Treatment – A Case Report and Review of the Literature

A 45-year-old male patient presented to the oncology center at Mansoura University, complaining of a dull-aching intermittent pain in left upper neck region of ten months duration, the pain was radiating to oropharynx, the patient also gave a history of long standing intermittent odynophagia and a foreign body sensation in the throat. The pain is exacerbating with turning the head to the right side. There was no recent history of tonsillectomy or any other cervicopharyngeal trauma. The patient sought medical advice at a dental, otolaryngeology and neurology clinics with no improvement. Cancer phobia was the drive that made the patient seek service at our oncology center since his father has had nasopharyngeal carcinoma.