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Case Reports
Sphenopalatine artery pseudoaneurysm: a rare cause of intractable epistaxis after endoscopic sinus surgery.
- Ozan Gökdoğan, Yusuf Kizil, Utku Aydil, Recep Karamert, Sabri Uslu, and Fikret Ileri.
- From the *Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Ankara Memorial Hospital; and †Department of Otorhinolaryngology, School of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.
- J Craniofac Surg. 2014 Mar 1; 25 (2): 539-41.
AbstractEpistaxis is a frequent health problem and the most common cause of emergency in otorhinolaryngology practice. In this report, a case of a 26-year-old patient with intractable epistaxis after endoscopic sinus surgery was presented. The epistaxis began at the fourth postoperative day and was unresponsive to endoscopic cauterization and anterior and posterior nasal packing. On angiographic investigation, a pseudoaneurysm of the sphenopalatine artery was detected and treated with microcatheter embolization. This is the second case of postoperative sphenopalatine pseudoaneurysm as a complication of endoscopic sinus surgery in the literature.
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