The diagnostic and therapeutic role of angiography in lingual arterial bleeding.
Selective external carotid angiography proved effective in the diagnosis of lingual arterial bleeding in seven patients. The cause of the hemorrhage was carcinoma of the tongue in six patients and stab wounds in one. Therapeutic Gelfoam embolization controlled hemorrhaging in four patients.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000792:Angiography; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002339:Carotid Arteries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005781:Gelatin Sponge, Absorbable; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D006472:Oral Hemorrhage / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D014062:Tongue Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014950:Wounds, Penetrating / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy