• Surgery today · Nov 2015

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    Recurrent intractable hiccups treated by cervical phrenic nerve block under electromyography: report of a case.

    • Young Jo Sa, Dae Heon Song, Jae Jun Kim, Young Du Kim, Chi Kyung Kim, and Seok Whan Moon.
    • Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 137-701, Republic of Korea. sagoon@catholic.ac.kr.
    • Surg. Today. 2015 Nov 1; 45 (11): 1446-9.

    AbstractIntractable or persistent hiccups require intensive or invasive treatments. The use of a phrenic nerve block or destructive treatment for intractable hiccups has been reported to be a useful and discrete method that might be valuable to patients with this distressing problem and for whom diverse management efforts have failed. We herein report a successful treatment using a removable and adjustable ligature for the phrenic nerve in a patient with recurrent and intractable hiccups, which was employed under the guidance of electromyography.

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