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[The pediatrician and the child with a psychosomatic disease: some reflections]
1Dipartimento di Pediatria, Università di Firenze, Italia.
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Pediatricians must consider psychosomatic conditions in children to avoid misdiagnoses. Overlooking these can lead to incorrect evaluations of both functional and organic health issues from infancy.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Medicine
- Child Psychology
- Developmental Pediatrics
Background:
- Psychosomatic conditions in children are often overlooked.
- Failure to consider these can lead to diagnostic errors.
Abstract:
Not very carefully taking into account a possible psychosomatic pathology in children can, in many occasions, cause the pediatrician to make seriously wrong diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic evaluations. As this is valid at any age, the authors affirm that particularly at the evolutive age, and since the first months of life, many circumstances occur in which the functional trouble can sometimes a serious organic pathology.