My watch list
my.bionity.com  
Login  

Kiesselbach's plexus



  Kiesselbach's area, also Kiesselbach's plexus and Little's area, is a region in the anteroinferior part of the nasal septum, where the following arteries anastomose:

  • anterior ethmoid artery,
  • great palatine artery
  • sphenopalatine artery and
  • superior labial artery.


Contents

Significance/pathology

Eighty percent of nose bleeds (epistaxis) arise from Kiesselbach's area.[1]

History

Kiesselbach's plexus is named after Wilhelm Kiesselbach (1839-1902) a German otolaryngologist.

References

  1. ^ Doyle DE. Anterior epistaxis: a new nasal tampon for fast, effective control. Laryngoscope. 1986 Mar;96(3):279-81.PMID 3951304.

See also

 
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Kiesselbach's_plexus". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
Your browser is not current. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 does not support some functions on Chemie.DE