Factitious hemiplegia and Munchausen's syndrome.
We report a case of a thirty-year-old woman suffering from chronic factitious disorder with hemiplegia. Such a pathomimia is very uncommon in Munchausen's syndrome. Indeed, most often, the clinical picture is characterised by acute abdominal pain, fainting, haemoptysis, precordialgia, hematemesis or dermatological lesions.
Biver
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Psychiatry Department, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels.
Delvenne
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Hirsch
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Lotstra
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D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005162:Factitious Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006429:Hemiplegia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D009110:Munchausen Syndrome / Q000150:complications*