Case 6-2005: A 58-year-old man with esophageal cancer and nausea, vomiting, and intractable hiccups

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 817-825

  Krakauer, Eric L ^a,b   Zhu, Andrew X ^a,b   Bounds, Brenna C ^a   Sahani, Dushyant ^a,b   McDonald, Kevin R ^a   Brachtel, Elena F ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACLOFEN; BISACODYL; CHLORPROMAZINE; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DEXAMETHASONE; HALOPERIDOL; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OCTREOTIDE; ONDANSETRON; OPIATE; PHENOTHIAZINE DERIVATIVE; PROCHLORPERAZINE; PROMETHAZINE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RANITIDINE; SENNA EXTRACT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS;

ADULT; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS BIOPSY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HICCUP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NAUSEA; OCCULT BLOOD; PAIN; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VOMITING; ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DUODENUM OBSTRUCTION; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FATALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STOMACH TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTIEMETICS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DUODENAL OBSTRUCTION; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGUS; FATAL OUTCOME; HALOPERIDOL; HICCUP; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OCTREOTIDE; PALLIATIVE CARE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VOMITING;

EID: 13844307751     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc049037     Document Type: Review

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