著者

Jinmei Sun Chengjie Zhang Beibei Liu Yao Li Tingting Zhang Jun Tian Hongyan Bi

出版者

The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine

雑誌

Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)

巻号頁・発行日

pp.9567-22, (Released:2022-08-30)

参考文献数

19

被引用文献数

3

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We herein report a 54-year-old man with eagle syndrome who presented with repeated episodes of syncope, especially after moving his head to a downward position. Computed tomography with contrast revealed a bilateral elongated styloid process. The left internal carotid artery was obviously compressed by the left elongated styloid processes. A transcranial Doppler examination detected a significantly decreased blood flow velocity in the left middle cerebral artery when the patient slightly lowered his head position. After surgery, the positional cerebral blood flow alteration disappeared. No further similar syncope episodes have been reported to date.