Recurrent deep ulcers resembling rare cancers as a form of factitious disorder

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 341-342

  Okuniewska, Aleksandra ^a   Imko Walczuk, Beata ^a   Czubek, Maria ^a   Biernat, Wojciech ^b  

^a Pomeranian Traumatology Center   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CYCLOSPORIN A; DAPSONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; DERMATITIS; DESMOID TUMOR; EXCISION; FAMILY CONFLICT; FEMALE; GAUZE DRESSING; HEMANGIOENDOTHELIOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME; NEOPLASM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECURRENT DISEASE; SCINTIGRAPHY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN ULCER; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BIOPSY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUNCHAUSEN SYNDROME; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RECURRENCE; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN ULCER; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 79955746104     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1027     Document Type: Article

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