An Unusual Finding of the Hyoid Bone.

Cureus. 2018 Sep 26;10(9):e3365. doi: 10.7759/cureus.3365.

Gnanadev R, Iwanaga J, Loukas M, Tubbs RS.

Abstract

The hyoid contributes to many biomechanical processes including swallowing. Additionally, the hyoid bone has been studied for over a century in an effort to catalog and categorize many observed biometric differences. This has led to the hyoid being a major structure involved in forensic pathology. In this paper, we discuss a very unusual finding of an adult female hyoid bone.

KEYWORDS:

forensic pathology; hyoid; larynx; myositis ossificans; omohyoid; ossification; variation

Figure 1

Measurement of the variant hyoid bone.