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KMID : 0361020230660120883
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Korean Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
2023 Volume.66 No. 12 p.883 ~ p.886
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Septodermoplasty in Recurrent Epistaxis Without Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
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Lee Yeong-Ju
Jang Yong-Ju
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Abstract
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Epistaxis is a common disease, most of which is naturally improved without treatment. How-ever, some patients experience recurrent epistaxis despite having received various treatments.
In such cases, the control of epistaxis may require a more invasive technique, such as emboli-zation or surgical ligation of the main feeding arteries of the nasal cavity. However, the nasalseptum receives blood supply from various branches of blood vessels, so these vascular con-trols can be inappropriate. In this case report, we applied septodermoplasty - a surgical tech-nique mostly aimed for the treatment of intractable epistaxis from hereditary hemorrhagic tel-angiectasia (HHT) - to treat patients suffering recurrent epistaxis from the nasal septum.
Although the two patients we treated were non-HHT, our application of this surgical tech-nique turned out to be successful. Here, we suggest expanding the indication of septodermo-plasty to non-HHT patients presenting with recurrent and difficult-to-treat epistaxis.
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KEYWORD
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Epistaxis, Nasal septum, Skin grafting
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