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Abstract
A factitious disorder characterized by habitual presentation for hospital treatment of an apparent acute illness, the patient giving a plausible and dramatic history, all of which is false.
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- Hospital-Addiction Syndrome
- Munchhausen Syndrome
- Syndrome, Hospital-Addiction
- Hospital Addiction Syndrome
- Hospital-Addiction Syndromes
- Syndrome, Hospital Addiction
- Syndrome, Munchausen
- Syndrome, Munchhausen
- Syndromes, Hospital-Addiction
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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dis symptoms fabricated by a person seeking hospitalization repeatedly; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME BY PROXY is available
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Munchausen Syndrome. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009110. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009110
- Munchausen Syndrome. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious_disorder_imposed_on_self
- Munchausen Syndrome. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q642598