Factitious diabetes mellitus as part of Munchausen's syndrome.
The patient presented here was known to have been suffering from diabetes mellitus for 3 yr, when the suspicion arose that we were dealing with a factitious disease. The coincidence of several other factitious illnesses led us to the diagnosis of Munchausen's syndrome, self-inflicted diabetes mellitus being part of this syndrome.
van der Poel
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Baggen
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Verschoor
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D000328:Adult; D001835:Body Weight; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009110:Munchausen Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis*