Laser Treatment of Epistaxis and Oral Bleeding in Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
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Endovascular treatment of epistaxis in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The treatment of epistaxis in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia can be very challenging. The purpose of our study was to evaluate our experience with endovascular epistaxis embolization in patients with hemorrhagic hereditary telangiectasia and to compare this with our experience in patients treated for idiopathic epistaxis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Over ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2168-5452,2168-5460
DOI: 10.4236/ijohns.2019.85020