Case number 31: Nodular panniculitis as expression of Munchausen's syndrome (panniculitis artefacta)

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1195-1196

  Tausche, A K ^a   Hansel S ^a   Tausche, K ^a   Unger, S ^a   Schroder H E ^a   Pietsch, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALINGERING; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SELF INJECTION; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; WEBER CHRISTIAN PANNICULITIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME; PANNICULITIS, NODULAR NONSUPPURATIVE;

EID: 4644324198     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2004.024539     Document Type: Article

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