Nasal vessel degeneration
With age the usual site of epistaxis moves more posteriorly in the nasal cavity.
Posterior nasal bleeding begins in the fourth decade.
It is thought that atherosclerotic changes in the arteries render them more liable to spontaneous rupture.
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