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A 60-year-old male patient was evaluated for cervical pain, hiccups, dysphonia and dysphagia for five months. Physical examination showed left IX and X cranial nerve palsy. Brain MRI was normal. A cervical CT scan showed an elongated styloid process and stylohyoid ligament pseudoarthrosis ( Figure). Eagle's syndrome is a rare entity caused by abnormal enlargement and ossification of the styloid process, the attached stylohyoid ligament and the lesser cornu of the hyoid bone 1,2,3,4 . The condition causes variable degrees of compression of V, VII, IX, X and XII cranial nerves, and the jugular or carotid, leading to diverse symptoms 1,2,3,4 . Eagle's syndrome pathogenesis remains unclear 1,2,3,4 .

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