Superselective embolization for severe traumatic epistaxis caused by fracture of the skull base.
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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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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology
دوره 14 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1993