Techniques for Achieving Hemostasis from Choanoid Cranial Foramina.

Techniques for Achieving Hemostasis from Choanoid Cranial Foramina.

World Neurosurg. 2017 Feb 09;:

Authors: Folzenlogen Z, Winston KR

Abstract
OBJECTIVE: This report describes two techniques for controlling otherwise difficult-to-control hemorrhage from choanoid bony foramina.
METHODS: The medical records of three patients in whom vigorous and difficult-to-control bleeding from choanoid cranial foramina was successfully halted are reviewed.
RESULTS: Two patients with vigorous arterial bleeding from foramina spinosa were controlled with a wooden peg. One patient with vigorous venous bleeding from a foramen in the convexity of the occipital bone was controlled with a wedge of bone.
CONCLUSION: Vigorous bleeding, whether arterial or venous, from choanoid foramina can be quickly and reliably controlled by the techniques described.

PMID: 28189860 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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