title: [Crying for attention: patients who mimic manifestations of disease].
abstract: This article focuses on the different forms of factitious diseases. Patients may mimic or produce the manifestations of a disease in order to attract attention of doctors. Sometimes patients inflict such serious injuries on their own bodies that they need to undergo long-term treatment in a hospital such as in the case of Munchausen syndrome. Recognition of alarm signals associated with this type of condition may help to avoid a long lasting process of illness, screening and unnecessary treatments.
authors.affiliation: Sectie Sociale Tandheelkunde en Voorlichtingskunde van het Academisch Centrum Tandheelkunde Amsterdam (ACTA), Stichting Bijzondere Tandheelkunde, Amsterdam.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de Jongh
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Broers
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016854:Dental Anxiety / Q000209:etiology*; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005162:Factitious Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009110:Munchausen Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis; D009426:Netherlands; D012640:Seizures / Q000523:psychology*; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000175:diagnosis