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- Title
Kanama İle Başvuran Munchausen Sendromu Olgusu.
- Authors
Asma, Suheyl; Erdoğan, Ahmet Ferit
- Abstract
Munchausen syndrome are characterized by physical or psychological symptoms that are intentionally produced or feigned in order to assume the sick role. The judgment that a particular symptom is intentionally produced is made both by direct evidence and by excluding other causes of the symptom. This disorder frequently cooccurs with significant personality or relational disorders. Primal motivation of these patients is to get hospitalized and this is almost a life style for them. Hematologic complaints are very common among who admit to hospitals. In this report a patient who admitted to Baskent University, Adana Teaching and Medical Research Center, hematology outpatient clinic and diagnosed as Munchausen syndrome is reported.
- Subjects
ADANA (Turkey); TURKEY; MUNCHAUSEN syndrome; FACTITIOUS disorders; HEMORRHAGE; LIFESTYLES; HOSPITAL patients; HEMATOLOGY; RESEARCH institutes
- Publication
TAF Preventive Medicine Bulletin, 2009, Vol 8, Issue 4, p365
- ISSN
1303-734X
- Publication type
Article