A 50-year-old man, with no previous history of epistaxis, was hospitalized at our facility for left recurrent posterior epistaxis. The patient underwent surgical treatment three times and only the operator's experience and radiological support ( cranial angiography) allowed us to control the epistaxis and stop the bleeding. The difficult bleeding management and control was attributed to an abnormal course of the left posterior ethmoidal artery. When bleeding seems to come from the roof of the nasal cavity, it is important to identify the ethmoid arteries always bearing in mind the possible existence of anomalous courses.

Recurrent Massive Epistaxis from an Anomalous Posterior Ethmoid Artery / Greco, MARCO GIUSEPPE; Mattioli, Francesco; Alberici, MARIA PAOLA; Presutti, Livio. - In: CASE REPORTS IN OTOLARYNGOLOGY. - ISSN 2090-6765. - 2016:(2016), pp. 1-4. [10.1155/2016/8504348]

Recurrent Massive Epistaxis from an Anomalous Posterior Ethmoid Artery

GRECO, MARCO GIUSEPPE;Mattioli, Francesco;ALBERICI, MARIA PAOLA;Presutti, Livio
2016

Abstract

A 50-year-old man, with no previous history of epistaxis, was hospitalized at our facility for left recurrent posterior epistaxis. The patient underwent surgical treatment three times and only the operator's experience and radiological support ( cranial angiography) allowed us to control the epistaxis and stop the bleeding. The difficult bleeding management and control was attributed to an abnormal course of the left posterior ethmoidal artery. When bleeding seems to come from the roof of the nasal cavity, it is important to identify the ethmoid arteries always bearing in mind the possible existence of anomalous courses.
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Recurrent Massive Epistaxis from an Anomalous Posterior Ethmoid Artery / Greco, MARCO GIUSEPPE; Mattioli, Francesco; Alberici, MARIA PAOLA; Presutti, Livio. - In: CASE REPORTS IN OTOLARYNGOLOGY. - ISSN 2090-6765. - 2016:(2016), pp. 1-4. [10.1155/2016/8504348]
Greco, MARCO GIUSEPPE; Mattioli, Francesco; Alberici, MARIA PAOLA; Presutti, Livio
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