Factitious Disorders
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Tuesday, November 24, 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...

Ganser syndrome with work-related onset in a patient with a background of immigration.

29 Apr 2009 INTRODUCTION: A substantial proportion of the recently published cases of dissociative disorders have a background of immigration (Fujiwara et al., 2008). Among the dissociative disorders, Ganser syndrome is an uncommon form that has as central ... 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...

Latest indexed articles for 'Factitious Disorders'

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
• Ganser syndrome with work-related onset in a patient with a background of immigration. 29 Apr 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
• Body integrity identity disorder (BIID)--is the amputation of healthy limbs ethically justified? 30 Dec 2008
• An opportunity to correct an error and any misimpressions. 29 Nov 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
• Prevalence of factitious disorder with psychological symptoms in hospitalized patients. 30 Oct 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
• Confabulation nation. 30 Jul 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