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Life-threatening haemorrhage after elevation of a fractured zygoma
P Hollow1, A D'Sa, P G McAndrew
1Rotherham District General Hospital, UK.
Abstract:
A 21-year-old man presented with a fractured left zygoma after an alleged assault. The fracture was elevated four days later, at which time he had a brisk left-sided epistaxis. Recovery was uneventful except for a haematoma that was drained a month later. Two weeks after this, he was admitted after having collapsed. He was shocked and bleeding profusely from his nose. He had a further major bleed in hospital and this was treated by tying off the left external carotid artery. He has made an uneventful recovery and investigations have shown no bleeding diathesis.
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