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More about pain in the neck: thyroid cartilage and mastoid process syndromes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Tsila Hefer ,
Dan Nir  and
Henry Zvi Joachims
Tsila Hefer*
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Rambam Medical Center, Technion-Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.
Dan Nir
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Rambam Medical Center, Technion-Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.
Henry Zvi Joachims
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Rambam Medical Center, Technion-Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel.
*
Address for correspondence: Dr Tsila Hefer, Department of Otolaryngology, P.O. Box 3360, Haifa 31033, Israel. Fax: 972-4-8542772
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Abstract

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Eight patients with cervical pain were examined. The only positive finding was an impressive tenderness over the thyroid cartilage (in seven patients) or over the area of the insertion of the sternocleidomastoid muscle to the mastoid process (in one patient). The diagnosis of thyroid cartilage syndrome and mastoid process syndrome were suggested and the patients were treated with oral and topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatorydrugs (NSAIDs) which reduced the symptoms. These syndromes are rare. The thyroid cartilage syndrome has been previously reported only once in the literature and this is the firstreport on the mastoid process syndrome. These syndromes, although rare, should be included in the list of causes for cervical pain and better recognition of the syndromes will save patients from undergoing unnecessary investigation and inappropriate treatment.

Keywords

PainneckThyroid cartilageMastoid
Type
Clinical Records
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 111 , Issue 12 , December 1997 , pp. 1190 - 1191
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1997

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