title: A review of the somatoform and factitial disorders for the podiatrist.
abstract: In this article, the author discusses psychiatric disorders that present as physical illness with no underlying organic cause. The most common types are presented with their clinical presentation, causation, and treatment. It is intended that the practitioner will be able to include these disorders in the different diagnoses of the patients who have symptoms that are difficult to diagnose and are not responsive to therapy.
mesh_terms: D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005162:Factitious Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005534:Foot Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D006998:Hypochondriasis / Q000175:diagnosis; D007046:Hysteria / Q000175:diagnosis; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*