Hiccups with high dose dexamethasone administration
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Transient Hiccups Associated with Oral Dexamethasone
Hiccups, or singulata (hiccup is singultus), are commonly experienced by most people at one time or another and are usually brief and self-limiting. Although pharmacotherapeutic agents are not generally considered causal in the etiology of hiccups, many clinicians empirically associate episodic hiccups in their patients as being drug induced. The two classes of drugs most often cited as causing...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19980115)82:2<415::aid-cncr23>3.0.co;2-0