[Bleeding disorders and childhood ENT diseases (author's transl)]

The diagnosis and management of ENT patients with coincidental bleeding dyscrasias presents special difficulties, which include diagnosis of the disorder, arrest of the bleeding when unexpected, and the conservative and surgical care of affected children with ENT diseases. The dyscrasias most often found in childhood are haemophilia, von Willibrand's disease and ideopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. The clinical presentation and course of these disorders are described. Present day treatment is effective in arrest of the haemorrhage such that a fatality can almost always be avoided. The close cooperation between specialist paediatricians and haematology departments in the handling of these patients is stressed.