An unusual complication of epistaxis: cerebral abscess formation after anterior ethmoidal artery ligation

Karin Murer; David Holzmann; Jan-Karl Burkhardt; Michael Benjamin Soyka

doi:10.1136/bcr-2015-213389

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An unusual complication of epistaxis: cerebral abscess formation after anterior ethmoidal artery ligation

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Karin Murer Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Kantonsspital Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
David Holzmann Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Jan-Karl Burkhardt Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles
Michael Benjamin Soyka Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland PubMed articles Google scholar articles

Correspondence to Dr Michael Benjamin Soyka, michael.soyka{at}usz.ch

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Murer K, Holzmann D, Burkhardt J, et al

An unusual complication of epistaxis: cerebral abscess formation after anterior ethmoidal artery ligation

Case Reports 2015;2015:bcr2015213389.

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Accepted December 8, 2015
First published December 29, 2015.

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December 29, 2015

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