Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasis
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Recurrent epistaxis secondary to hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasis.
Familial epistaxis is often encountered by Otolaryngologists. Osier in 1901 described a triad of symptoms consisting of epistaxis, positive family history and multiple telangiectasia. Harrison (1957) regards this phenomena as 'rare' and Mc Caffrey et al. (1977) calls it unusual Multiple Telangiectasia, the cause of which is unknown, has a dominant familial trait. It may be very easily missed wh...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1945
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4395.440