MUNCHAUSEN-SYNDROME PRESENTING AS HEMOPHILIA - A CONVENIENT AND ECONOMICAL STEAL OF DISEASE AND TREATMENT

Authors
AYASS M BUSSING R MEHTA P
Citation
M. Ayass et al., MUNCHAUSEN-SYNDROME PRESENTING AS HEMOPHILIA - A CONVENIENT AND ECONOMICAL STEAL OF DISEASE AND TREATMENT, Pediatric hematology and oncology, 10(3), 1993, pp. 241-244
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Pediatrics,Oncology,Hematology
Journal title
Pediatric hematology and oncology → ACNP
ISSN journal
08880018
Volume
10
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
241 - 244
Database
ISI
SICI code
0888-0018(1993)10:3<241:MPAH-A>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
Munchausen's syndrome and Munchausen's sydrome by proxy (MSBP) can cau se many conditions, including bleeding problems, seizures, failure to thrive and others.1-10 We report here an unusual case in which a mothe r presented to the hospital for her hemophiliac son's failure to thriv e, subsequently for her own self-inflected mutilating wounds, and fina lly for self-induced simulation of her son's hemophiliac bleeding and arthritic complications.