CASE REPORT article
Front. Surg.
Sec. Visceral Surgery
This article is part of the Research TopicComplications in Major Abdominal Surgery: What to Expect and How to Deal with the Dark Side of SurgeryView all 5 articles
Intractable hiccups induced by gallbladder necrosis after laparoscopic distal D2 radical gastrectomy: two cases report
Provisionally accepted
Zhao zhi1
lin jinquan2,3*- 1Guilin Peoples Hospital, Guilin, China
- 2Guilin People’s hospital, Guilin, China
- 3The People’s Hospital of Cenxi City, cenxi, China
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ABTRACT Gallbladder necrosis after gastrectomy is very rare, and intractable hiccups caused by gallbladder necrosis is even more rare. Its clinical presentations and management strategies have not been described in available literature. This report firstly describes the clinical presentations, cause, management strategies, and treatment outcome of intractable hiccups immediately after gastrectomy. When intractable hiccups occurs after gastrectomy and abdominal computed tomography (CT) indicates gallbladder enlargement, gallbladder necrosis should be considered. After cholecystectomy or ultrasound-guided percutaneous gallbladder drainage, the patients were successfully treated.
Keywords: Gallbladder necrosis, Gastrectomy, gastric cancer, Intractable hiccups, Postoperative complication
Received: 12 Nov 2025; Accepted: 22 Jan 2026.
Copyright: © 2026 zhi and jinquan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: lin jinquan
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