[Angiographic embolization for the treatment of uncontrollable epistaxis]

In the treatment of 8 cases of patients with uncontrollable epistaxis, we used the embolization following vascular angiographic localization. They were cured and no any serious complication. Embolization is the safe and effective method of stopping uncontrollable epistaxis and is the best method in the elder patients with other diseases, under the condition of anterior and posterior nasal packing being controversial. It is the key that before embolization we make angiography to arteries and find the bleeding vessels. The technique of embolization, superselective embolization and so on are all important measures in the decreasing severe complications.