A patient with an intracavernous carotid aneurysm usually presents with symptoms and signs of a space occupying lesion, producing one of a variety of types of cavernous sinus syndromes (Jefferson, 1938). Epistaxis is an unusual feature in these patients and when present is nearly always associated with a traumatic aneurysm (Mahmoud, 1979). There are only two reported cases of non-traumatic intr...

BACKGROUND: Different institutions use different grading systems for hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)-associated epistaxis. It is important to have a universal, standardized system compare and evaluate the effectiveness of treatment options. We introduced “Intensity, Frequency need Blood Transfusion” (IFT) HHT-associated epistaxis in 2008. Hoag et al. proposed “Epistaxis Severity Sc...

BACKGROUND Epistaxis is one of the most commonly encountered emergencies in ENT practise. It has been reported that almost 60% of general population experience epistaxis of small or large quantity in his /her lifetime(1). OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to compare the outcome of double balloon catheter to normal packing method for epistaxis. MATERIALS AND METHODS An interventional...

_______________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Pedigree and race run data from Thoroughbreds racing in Southern Africa, covering the period 19862002 (63 146 horses in pedigree data-set and 778 532 race runs), were analysed in order to study genetic and environmental factors affecting the incidence of epistaxis as associated with “exercise-induce...

talented individuals, who are bleeding from the nose, usually do not go to the doctor, except in case of sever and unusual bleeding. because traditional method of treatment is not effective in nasopharanx bleeding, so malcolm harvey explain brighton epistaxis balloon as a new method  for controlling nasopharanx bleeding through the paper. epistaxia usually happen in the anterior part of the nas...

the paranasal sinuses are known to be a rare location for metastasis. renal cell carcinoma (rcc) is the most frequent primary tumor to metastasize to the sinonasal region, followed by lung and breast cancer. in particular, clear cell type rcc, which represents approximately 85% of rccs, is characterized by early metastasis, and it sometimes spreads to unusual sites (1, 2). metastatic tumors in ...