Treatment of severe epistaxis by superselective embolization: A review of 22 cases

Revue de Laryngologie Otologie Rhinologie

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 247-251

  Ricci, G ^a,b   Molini, E ^a,b   Hamam, M ^a,c   Ciorba, A ^a,b   Altissimi, G ^a,b   Campanella, S ^a,c   Fiacca, A ^a,c   Pelliccioli, G ^a,c  

^a ENT Department ^*

^b Hospital of Perugia   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Epistaxis; Superselective embolization; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVASCULARIZATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPISTAXIS; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MAXILLARY ARTERY; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE MUCOSA; RECURRENT DISEASE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; FACE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; EPISTAXIS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL CAVITY; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 14544274170     PISSN: 00351334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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