Eagle syndrome, defined "stylalgia," occurs when an elongated styloid process or calcified stylohyoid ligament causes dysphagia, facial pain recurrent throat pain or foreign body sensation, also associated symptoms such as neck or throat pain with radiation to the ear. The symptoms related to this condition can be confused or misdiagnosed to a wide variety of facial neuralgias. The incidence of Eagle syndrome varies among population. Usually asymptomatic, it occurs in adult patients, and can be diagnosed by physical examination and radiologically. A 30-year-old male patient presented to the maxillofacial unit of Sulaimaniyah Teaching Hospital with a complaint of pain in the right side of face interfering with mouth opening and causing deviation to the right side of mouth for 6 months duration. The elongated styloid process of the right side was resected surgically by the intra-oral approach. The patient was asymptomatic and comfortably followed up for 5 months.
International Journal of Case Reports and Images (IJCRI) is an international, peer reviewed, monthly, open access, online journal, publishing high-quality, articles in all areas of basic medical sciences and clinical specialties.Aim of IJCRI is to encourage the publication of new information by providing a platform for reporting of unique, unusual and rare cases which enhance understanding of disease process, its diagnosis, management and clinico-pathologic correlations. We present a case of a 33-year-old male patient reported with chief complaints of malocclusion, facial asymmetry, difficulty in chewing and deviation of jaw since two years also during childhood he had a history of trauma. Radiographic images and computed tomography suggested benign osteogenic neoplastic lesion involving right condyle which on histopathological examination confirmed it is osteoma. Conclusion: Osteoma should be considered as one of the differential diagnosis in a patient with malocclusion, facial asymmetry, deviation of jaw and difficulty in chewing, especially in a patient with the previous history of trauma.
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