A healthy man with intractable hiccups

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 781-783

  Pechlivanis, Ioannis ^a   Seiz, Marcel ^a   Barth, Martin ^a   Schmieder, Kirsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain stem; Cavernoma; Hiccups

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; HEMOSIDERIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; FOLLOW UP; HICCUP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCISION; INTRACTABLE HICCUP; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; HICCUP; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PONS;

EID: 77953138704     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2009.08.022     Document Type: Article

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