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Eagle Syndrome as a Potential Contributor to Intractable Occipital Headache: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

2026-08-20

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background. Eagle syndrome refers to symptomatic elongation of the styloid process, generally beyond 25 to 30 mm, or ossification of the stylohyoid ligament. The mechanism of elongation remains debated; one long-standing hypothesis, proposed by Watt Eagle, holds that surgical trauma or chronic local irritation of the stylohyoid complex provokes osteitis, periostitis, or tendonitis with...

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Literature Corpus work: 8bebe3e9-fc62-5250-ad47-849c50f29ed9
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10464193/v1

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