Cyclical vomiting syndrome secondary to a Chiari I malformation—a case report

BACKGROUND: Cyclical vomiting syndrome is a disorder characterised by recurrent episodes of profuse vomiting. There are no cases in the literature on the management of children with presenting with cyclical vomiting syndrome and a Chiari malformation type I. DISCUSSION: We report the case of a 12-ye...

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Autores principales: White, William L, Bagga, Veejay, Campbell, David I, Hart, Anthony R, Ushewokunze, Shungu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662674/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28894924
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00381-017-3589-5
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author White, William L
Bagga, Veejay
Campbell, David I
Hart, Anthony R
Ushewokunze, Shungu
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description BACKGROUND: Cyclical vomiting syndrome is a disorder characterised by recurrent episodes of profuse vomiting. There are no cases in the literature on the management of children with presenting with cyclical vomiting syndrome and a Chiari malformation type I. DISCUSSION: We report the case of a 12-year-old child diagnosed with cyclical vomiting syndrome and a Chiari malformation type I. The patient received symptomatic relief following a craniocervical decompression.
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spelling pubmed-56626742017-11-15 Cyclical vomiting syndrome secondary to a Chiari I malformation—a case report White, William L Bagga, Veejay Campbell, David I Hart, Anthony R Ushewokunze, Shungu Childs Nerv Syst Brief Communication BACKGROUND: Cyclical vomiting syndrome is a disorder characterised by recurrent episodes of profuse vomiting. There are no cases in the literature on the management of children with presenting with cyclical vomiting syndrome and a Chiari malformation type I. DISCUSSION: We report the case of a 12-year-old child diagnosed with cyclical vomiting syndrome and a Chiari malformation type I. The patient received symptomatic relief following a craniocervical decompression. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017-09-11 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5662674/ /pubmed/28894924 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00381-017-3589-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5662674/
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