Síndrome de MÜNCHHAUSEN

Authors

  • Belia Oviedo Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas
  • Stella Salvini Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas
  • Guillermo Bauducco Hospital San Roque
  • Karina Blangino Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31053/1853.0605.v59.n1.36934

Keywords:

Munchhausen's Syndrome, Self aggression

Abstract

Munchhausen Syndrome can be expresed in many differcnt ways. Wc report the case of a patient with cutaneous manifestations.
Possible differential diagnostics are being analysed in both dermatology and psycopathologic aspects. Although the syndrome appears frequcntly, i ts unsuspected ways of presentation make difficult to diagnose it. It is necessary the knowledge of this syndrorne because of the morbid-mortality it implies.

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Author Biographies

Belia Oviedo, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas

Unidad San Roque. Cátedra de Dermatología

Stella Salvini, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas

Unidad San Roque. Cátedra de Dematología 

Guillermo Bauducco, Hospital San Roque

Servicio de Salud Mental 

Karina Blangino, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Ciencias Médicas

Unidad de San Roque- Cátedra de Dermatología 

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Published

2002-03-30

How to Cite

1.
Oviedo B, Salvini S, Bauducco G, Blangino K. Síndrome de MÜNCHHAUSEN . Rev Fac Cien Med Univ Nac Cordoba [Internet]. 2002 Mar. 30 [cited 2024 May 17];59(1):125-9. Available from: https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/med/article/view/36934

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