Factitious Disorders - Diagnosis
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Self-inflicted non-healing genital ulcer: a rare form of factitious disorder.

30 May 2009 Dermatitis artefacta is a factitious dermatological disorder with many forms of presentation that may occur on any part of the body. A diagnosis of dermatitis artefacta is often reached after rigorous and repeated investigations. Here we present the ... Read more...

[Pediatric complex regional pain syndrome affecting an upper limb: 7 cases and a brief review of the literature]

27 Feb 2009 OBJETIVES: To review the clinical, psychiatric, and social characteristics of complex regional pain syndrome in children and adolescents treated in the last 4 years at our pediatric pain clinic. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We analyzed the specialty of the ... Read more...

Does intuition have a role in psychiatric diagnosis?

25 Feb 2009 Psychiatric diagnosis is invariably guided by self-report. When such self-report is questioned, reliance on formalized testing predominates. The situation is less certain, however, when such methods and clinical "feel", or intuition, conflict. While ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Factitious Disorders - Diagnosis'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• What is your diagnosis? Factitious purpura. 30 Jul 2009
• Self-inflicted non-healing genital ulcer: a rare form of factitious disorder. 30 May 2009
• Great caution. 7 May 2009
• The proposed diagnosis of somatic symptom disorders in DSM-V to replace somatoform disorders in DSM-IV--a preliminary report. 14 Apr 2009
• [Art and psychiatry] 30 Mar 2009
• Fabricated illness. 12 Mar 2009
• [Pediatric complex regional pain syndrome affecting an upper limb: 7 cases and a brief review of the literature] 27 Feb 2009
• Does intuition have a role in psychiatric diagnosis? 25 Feb 2009
• What's in a name? Psychosomatic medicine and biobehavioral medicine. 3 Jan 2009
• [A case report. Factitious disorder with psychological symptoms. Is confrontation useful?] 30 Dec 2008
• Re: factitious disorders of the upper limb, Burke (2008), Journal of Hand Surgery, 33E: 103-109. 29 Nov 2008
• Axis I comorbidity and psychopathologic correlates of autodestructive syndromes. 19 Nov 2008
• Challenges in the treatment of factitious disorder: a case study. 13 Oct 2008
• Factitious disorder in children and adolescents: a retrospective study. 30 Aug 2008
• [Factitious fever: a disease without imaging diagnosis] 30 Aug 2008
• Looking toward DSM-V: should factitious disorder become a subtype of somatoform disorder? 29 Jun 2008
• A case of factitious subfascial emphysema. 29 Apr 2008
• [Factitious disorder--fever and delayed wound healing] 29 Apr 2008
• [Psychopathology of Ganser's syndrome. Literature review and case report] 29 Apr 2008
• Management of factitious disorders: a systematic review. 14 Apr 2008

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Technical information about 'Factitious Disorders'

Definition: Disorders characterized by physical or psychological symptoms that are not real, genuine, or natural.

Descriptor UI: D005162

Alternative terms: Factitious Disorders; Disorders, Factitious; Ganser Syndrome; Syndrome, Ganser; Pseudodementia; Pseudopsychosis;

Allowable Qualifiers: physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology; blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology;

Tree Number: F03.400;

History Note: 81

Technical Notes: differentiate from SOMATOFORM DISORDERS: factitious are phys or psychol sympt under voluntary control, somatoform are phys sympt linked to psychol factors but not under voluntary control