title: [Precocious and polymorphic factitious disorder].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Pathomimia is a mental disease more frequently diagnosed in women, characterised by a wide range of somatic or psychiatric symptoms, and a chronic course with severe complications.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 22-year-old woman was suffering from severe factitious disorders with thermopathomimia, dermopathomimia, self-injuries with induced abscess, Lasthenie de Ferjol syndrome, and psychiatric factitious disorder. A very precocious age at onset and a previous history of 37 surgical operations were found.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This case history is particularly relevant in showing the clinical multiplicity of factitious disorders.
authors.affiliation: Service du Professeur Adès, Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Louis Mourier, Colombes. frederic.limosin@wanadoo.fr
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Limosin
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kesseler
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Adès
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009110:Munchausen Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010348:Patient Care Team
vernacular_title: Pathomimie précoce et polymorphe.