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. 1993 Mar-Apr;14(2):343-5.

Superselective embolization for severe traumatic epistaxis caused by fracture of the skull base.

A Kurata 1, T Kitahara 1, Y Miyasaka 1, T Ohwada 1, K Yada 1, S Kan 1
PMCID: PMC8332948  PMID: 8456708

Abstract

Intractable epistaxis developed in a 13-year-old girl after she fell down a flight of stairs sustaining facial fractures and fracture of the skull base. Epistaxis was found to emanate from a right ascending pharyngeal artery, which the authors promptly and successfully embolized using polyvinyl alcohol particles and microfibrillar collagen.

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