Changsha Evening News Changsha September 19 (All-media reporter Yang Weiran, correspondent Song Xi) Throat pain for more than half a year is not pharyngitis . After the doctor's examination and operation, the patient was discharged from the hospital successfully today.
Swelling and sore throat is a common problem that ordinary people encounter. Most of them are throat inflammation. Take some medicine and it will usually be cured in about a week. However, Ms. Shen, who lives in Kaifu District, had a long sore throat. According to her, the pain in the right pharyngeal has lasted for more than half a year. It was not very serious at the beginning. She thought it was a pharyngitis and attack, so it did not attract attention. The symptoms have become worse and worse in the past month, causing Ms. Shen to be unable to sleep at night and is very painful, so she came to Changsha First Hospital for treatment a few days ago.
After the hospital's otolaryngology doctor asked in detail about the medical history, he considered that Ms. Shen had a bone spur in her pharyngeal department, which is what the medical community often calls "the styloid process is too long." During the physical examination, a hard cord-like object was touched on Ms. Shen's right throat, and Ms. Shen also felt a significant sting. After three-dimensional CT examination, the right styloid process was 6cm long, which was obviously too long, which confirmed the doctor's judgment.
Zhang Junjie, director of the Department of Otolaryngology, performed a styloid truncation on Ms. Shen. The oral mucosa was cut above the right tonsil and found that the long styloid process looked like a thin wooden stick. The operation was smooth, with the styloid process about 3.5cm long, and the operation took only 20 minutes.
Zhang Junjie introduced that the styloid process is a normal structure of the human body, with some muscles attached to it, and important neurovascular channels pass nearby. The styloid process is about 2.5 cm long. When the styloid process is too long, or its orientation and morphology are abnormal, it will stimulate the nerves of the adjacent blood vessels and cause foreign body sensation, pharyngeal pain, or reflex ear pain, head and neck pain, and increased saliva.
The clinical incidence of styloid hypertrophy syndrome is low and is easily overlooked. Traditionally, the styloid process is truncated through the tonsil fossa after oral pharyngeal removal, or the cervical outer diameter surgery is performed to cut short the styloid process. Currently, the upper tonsil fossa approach is used in clinical practice to cut off the styloid process, which not only retains the patient's tonsils, but also has a smaller surgical trauma, , and has a shorter time, and has a quick recovery after surgery. After the operation, Ms. Shen's sore throat felt significantly relieved, and after a period of recovery, the symptoms were expected to completely disappear.
