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

AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 1993 Mar-Apr;14(2):343-5.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Carotid Arteries / diagnostic imaging
  • Embolization, Therapeutic / methods*
  • Epistaxis / diagnostic imaging
  • Epistaxis / etiology
  • Epistaxis / therapy*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Maxillary Fractures / complications
  • Maxillary Fractures / diagnostic imaging
  • Maxillary Sinus / injuries
  • Radiography, Interventional
  • Skull Fractures / complications*
  • Skull Fractures / diagnostic imaging
  • Sphenoid Bone / diagnostic imaging
  • Sphenoid Bone / injuries