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Factitious skin lesions in a mother and two sons
The British Journal of Dermatology
|August 1, 1977
A family is described in which a woman, probably in a state of 'hysterical conversion', produced factitious lesions in her own skin (dermatitis artefacta) and in the skin of two sons (child abuse). Non-accidental injury to a child's skin may form part of a spectrum of skin artefacts in the parent.
A family is described in which a woman, probably in a state of 'hysterical conversion', produced factitious lesions in her own skin (dermatitis artefacta) and in the skin of two sons (child abuse). Non-accidental injury to a child's skin may form part of a spectrum of skin artefacts in the parent.