title: Microsurgery in severe posterior epistaxis.
abstract: A brief review of surgery for severe posterior epistaxis has been outlined. Hundred and forty-five (27.3%) patients were treated by transnasal microsurgery in order to undergo ligation of the branches of the sphenopalatine artery in the nasal cavity. The rate of failure was 6.1%. It seems that by using this kind of operation, we can significantly decrease the morbidity in relation to other methods of controlling the posterior epistaxis.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D001158:Arteries; D004844:Epistaxis / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008026:Ligation; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods*; D009666:Nose / Q000098:blood supply