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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 89-91 |
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Intractable vomiting caused by vertebral artery compressing the medulla: A case report
Lauren Gorton, Ahmed M Ashour, Jonathon Lebovitz, Angela Di Cosola, Saleem I Abdulrauf
Department of Neurological Surgery, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Correspondence Address:
Saleem I Abdulrauf
Chairman, Department of Neurological Surgery, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri
USA
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DOI: 10.4103/0974-8237.156071
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Vertebral artery compressing the medulla and causing intractable vomiting has only been reported once previously. We report a case of a 69-year-old woman with intractable nausea and vomiting causing a 50 pound weight loss and who failed medical management and whose symptoms were completely reversed following microvascular decompression (MVD). |
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