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Ossified segments of the stylohyoid ligament A case of radiological misdiagnosis*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

G. Har-El*
Affiliation:
Petah Tiqva, Israel
A. Weisbord
Affiliation:
Petah Tiqva, Israel
J. Sidi
Affiliation:
Petah Tiqva, Israel
*
Dr. G. Har-El, Department of Otolaryngology, Long Island College Hospital, 340 Henry Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201, U.S.A.

Abstract

An ossified segment of the stylohyoid ligament was misdiagnosed as a foreign body.

Type
Clinical Records
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1987

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Footnotes

*

From the Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, Beilinson Medical Centre, Petah Tiqva and Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Israel.

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