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Psychogenic Cough and Laryngeal Tics Involving Cough: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Esther Gómez-Gil ,
Pilar Sanz ,
Josep Toro ,
Joan de Pablo  and
Esteban Cirera
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Abstract

We present the case of a 27-year-old man treated unsuccessfully for 1 year for chronic cough, who was thought to suffer from psychogenic cough. Vocal tic was suspected by a liaison psychiatry service, and treatment with low-dose haloperidol was successful. This case suggests that more attention to tic syndromes is needed before qualifying persistent idiopathic cough as psychogenic.

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Grand Rounds
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 3 , Issue 10 , December 1998 , pp. 76 - 77
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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