Taking on the parent to save a child: Munchausen syndrome by proxy

Contemporary Pediatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 50-63

  Malatack, J Jeffrey ^a,b   Consolini, Deborah ^a,b   Mann, Keith ^a,b   Raab, Christopher ^a,b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

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