A case of factitious aplastic anemia robert bright

International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 433-441

  Bright, Robert ^a   Eisendrath, Stuart ^b   Damon, Lloyd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aplastic anemia; Bone marrow transplant; Busulfan; Chemotherapy; Factitious disorder; Munchausen; Oncology; Pancytopenia; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

BUSULFAN;

ADULT; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC NECROSIS; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CHRONIC PAIN; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; FECES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INGESTION; INTERVIEW; PANCYTOPENIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHODYNAMICS; SELF INJECTION; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRANSFUSION;

ADULT; ANEMIA, APLASTIC; ANTILYMPHOCYTE SERUM; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; BUSULFAN; CYCLOSPORINE; FACTITIOUS DISORDERS; FEMALE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; PANCYTOPENIA; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 0035728466     PISSN: 00912174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/TUJB-B2M7-6UPV-XPLV     Document Type: Article

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