Hyoid bone impingement syndrome

Evidence-based neurology checklist on hyoid bone impingement syndrome: Pathology This is impingement of the internal carotid artery by an elongated hyoid bone Presentations Differential diagnosis Treatment Synonym

Pathology

  • This is impingement of the internal carotid artery by an elongated hyoid bone

Presentations

Differential diagnosis

Treatment

Synonym

References

  1. Janczak D, Skora J, Rucinski A, Szuba A. Recurrent syncope caused by compression of internal carotid artery by an anomalous hyoid bone. Vasa 2012; 41:221-224. 
  2. Mori M, Yamamoto H, Koga M, et al. Hyoid bone compression-induced repetitive occlusion and recanalization of the internal carotid artery in a patient with ipsilateral brain and retinal ischemia. Arch Neurol 2011; 68:258-259.
  3. Ludt C, Leppert M, Jones A, Song J, Kuwayama D, Pastula DM, Poisson S. Multiple strokes associated with elongation of the hyoid bone. Neurohospitalist 2018; 8:35-37. 
  4. Kho LK, Bates TR, Thompson A, Dharsono F, Prentice D. Cerebral embolism and carotid-hyoid impingement syndrome. J Clin Neurosci 2019; 64:27-29.
  5. Plotkin A, Bartley MG, Bowser KE, Yi JA, Magee GA. Carotid artery entrapment by the hyoid bone-a rare cause of recurrent strokes in a young patient. Ann Vasc Surg 2019; 57:48.e7-48.e11.
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