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Cervical computed tomography angiography demonstrates a small fracture of the right greater horn (dotted circle). Also shown is mild diastases of the right hyoid synchondrosis (solid circle) with a subtle effacement of the right paralaryngeal fat adjacent to the fracture suggestive for edema.
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There was mild diastasis of the right hyoid synchondrosis, with a subtle effacement of the right paralaryngeal fat adjacent to the fracture, suggestive of soft tissue edema (Figure 2).
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Octagonal soft tissue neck radiographs do not demonstrate prevertebral soft tissue swelling or retropharyngeal gas. There is a widely patent airway and a vertical lucency on the lateral view of the hyoid bone suggestive of the fracture (circle).
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He had a widely patent airway with a vertical lucency through the hyoid bone, representing a hyoid fracture (Figure 3).
Plain lateral radiograph and computed tomography images demonstrating fracture through the right greater horn (dotted circle) with inferomedial angulation of the more posterior fragment. There is a small diastasis of the synchondrosis between the hyoid body and the right greater cornu (solid circle).
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Cervical CT angiography demonstrated a fracture through the right greater horn (cornua majora) of the hyoid bone with inferomedial angulation of the more posterior fragment (Figure 4).