Physical complaints without organic basis in psychiatric inpatients: report of two cases.
Two patients with borderline personality disorder hospitalized for behavior disturbance had physical complaints for which no organic basis could be found. These cases highlight a conceptual difficulty in our current classification system for such physical complaints, raise issues about the interplay of psychiatric syndromes, and illustrate how physical complaints without organic basis complicate psychiatric hospitalization.
D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*