Abstract:We investigated the data of 489 patients with epistaxis who visited our hospital between 2009 and 2013. Epistaxis was more frequent in males (298 cases) than in females (191 cases). The mean age was 57.1 years, with the largest number of patients were in their 70s, 60s and 50s, in that order. Epistaxis occurred more often in the winter and spring, with a significantly lower number of patients in the summer and autumn. The most frequent onset time was in the morning from 6 am to 8 am. The sites of bleeding were… Show more
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