The clinical features of the course of stylohyoid syndrome compared to functional disphonia and pathology of the temporomandibular joint, the methods of treatment of patients with a combination of these diseases, generalizing features and differences

Abstract

Stylohyoid syndrome is a disease caused by irritation of the surrounding nerve, vascular and muscle structures by the styloid process of the temporal bone. Symptoms of stylohyoid syndrome are found in various otolaryngological, neurological and dental diseases, which requires differential diagnosis, predominance of one or another symptom of stylohyoid syndrome, or other pathology. There was a need to develop a differential diagnosis algorithm for practicing doctors when referring to patients with confirmed elongation of the styloid process of the temporal bone, and the presence of a visual picture of disorders of the vocal apparatus, for a correct idea of which symptomatology prevails.