Calcified stylohyoid ligament is also called an elongated styloid process and the symptom complex that it produces is called Eagle's syndrome. The symptoms of neck pain, sore throat, foreign body sensation in the throat, dysphagia and otalgia may be confused with other head and neck pain and are often worsened by yawning, opening the mouth wide or turning the head laterally. This is the result ...

Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is characterized by fever, rash, and joint pain and may lead to chronic arthritis. The cause of AOSD is unknown, and it is rare. We encountered a patient with adult-onset Still's disease following a sore throat and fever. The patient was a 40-year-old woman who consulted our hospital because of a sore throat, fever and arthritis. She was admitted and treated w...

A 12‐year‐old previously healthy girl presented with insidious onset, slowly progressive difficulty in swallowing, which was more with solids. There was no history of pain on deglutition, chest pain, foreign body sensation in throat, change in voice, heartburn, and choking or coughing during swallowing. Her systemic examination was also noncontributory. Examination of the throat revealed a smoo...

CASE This 60-year-old woman presented with an 11-year history of severe throat pain recurring approximately every couple of years lasting for about 3 months. The current episode had been present for 5 weeks, the prior episode occurred over 1 year previously. She described an electrical pain with an intensity of 10 of 10 felt in the left throat around the tonsillar area sometimes shooting to the...

Eagle syndrome (ES) is a symptom complex including recurrent neck and throat pain, foreign body sensation in the throat and dysphagia as a result of the elongation of the styloid process or the mineralization of the stylohyoid ligament complex. The symptoms of ES may worsen with lateral rotation of the head and it may less commonly present with tinnitus, weakness on the tongue, altered speech, ...

Methods: We investigated the efficacy of sucralfate together with the TW technique on post-tonsillectomy morbidity in children. Our hypothesis was that the advantages of the TW technique might be improved by the protective coating effect of sucralfate on post-tonsillectomy morbidity. Patients were examined and scored clinically by their parents on the day of the operation and at the end of the ...

PURPOSE To identify and characterize the presence of body pain related to voice usage in choral singers. METHODS A questionnaire investigating the occurrence of voice problems, vocal self-evaluation, and a report of body aches was given to 50 classical choral singers and 150 participants who were non-singers. Thirteen types of aches were investigated that were distributed into two groups: lar...

PURPOSE To report the first case of poststreptococcal syndrome uveitis (PSU) in association with group C streptococcus (GCS). PATIENTS AND METHODS Chart review of a 24-year-old man who presented with bilateral ocular redness, pain, and photophobia for 5 days and "white rings" around his eyes for a duration of 3 days. The patient further reported fever and sore throat in the preceding week. Sl...

December 1875, complaining of sore throat, difficulty of swallowing, intense thirst, and presenting, in addition to the usual phenomena ot fever, a diffuse scarlet eruption which involved nearly the whole cutaneous surface. History.?Without the previous occurrence of chills or rigor the patient was suddenly seized with pain in the throat on the morning of the 25th, and during the whole of that ...