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Factitious hemiplegia and Munchausen's syndrome
F Biver1, V Delvenne, D Hirsch
1Psychiatry Department, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels.
Acta Neurologica Belgica
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
We report a case of a thirty-year-old woman suffering from chronic factitious disorder with hemiplegia. Such a pathomimia is very uncommon in Munchausen's syndrome. Indeed, most often, the clinical picture is characterised by acute abdominal pain, fainting, haemoptysis, precordialgia, hematemesis or dermatological lesions.