Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is not just a painful condition. At times, it may be life-threatening as a result of associated cardiovascular consequences. Even in the absence of life-threatening consequences, it can be a severe debilitating disease with depression, suicidal tendencies, fear of swallowing, loss of weight and under-nutrition. The treatment for glossopharyngeal neuralgia and Eagle's ...

Styloid process is a process or projection from the skull base with a normal length of 2.5-3.0 cm. In certain individuals for a variety of reasons there may be an elongation of styloid process. Abnormally long styloid process becomes symptomatic in patients and manifest as Eagle’s Syndrome. The aim of our study was to retrospectively measure the length of the styloid process on archived Orthopa...

Eagle's syndrome represents a symptomatic styloid process elongation or calcification of stylohyoid or stylomandibular ligament. The symptoms include the throat pain radiating to ipsilateral ear or foreign body sensation in the pharynx causing odynophagia and dysphagia. It is commonly unilateral and bilateral cases are rare. We report a case of bilateral elongation of styloid processes treated ...