Factitious Disorders

Vomito verde e dinamiche di famiglia: un caso di Munchausen per procura

Giuseppin I, Camolese A.

2026/3 — pag. 184-187 — DOI

The paper reports the case of a 6-year-old girl obsessively brought for medical evaluation by her father due to vague symptoms and recurrent vomiting (at times biliary, documented only through photographs provided by her mother). Extensive medical in...

Lesioni cutanee auto provocate Morso di ragno

2025/6 — pag. 400 — DOI

Una bambina che non vuole camminare

Penco A.

2024/6 — pag. 396-396 — DOI

The paper describes the case of an eight-year-old girl presenting with limping, worsening bilateral foot sole pain: the unmistakable symptoms (refusal to stand and walk) contributed to the diagnosis of conversion/factitious disorder....

Un rash... simpatico

Coslovich S.

2023/10 — pag. 662-663 — DOI

The diagnosis of self-induced disorder was eventually made in a 9-year-old girl with malar rash and frequent absences from school....

Lesioni auto-provocate

2023/10 — pag. 668 — DOI

Dermatite artefatta Precursore di emangioma infantile o malformazione vascolare?

2021/5 — pag. 336 — DOI

Dermatite artefatta Granuloma piogenico

2019/10 — pag. 666

I love (doctor) shopping…

F. Belcari, S. Agostiniani, G. Rossi, M.C. Caparello, R. Consolini

2016/5 — pag. 323-324

A thirteen-year-old boy presented with recurrent fever for two years and was checked up in several hospitals with the only outcome of hypogammaglobulinemia. He could not go to school for 90 days. He underwent clinical examination and lab tests th...

I love (doctor) shopping…

F. Belcari, S. Agostiniani, G. Rossi, M.C. Caparello, R. Consolini

2016/5

A thirteen-year-old boy presented with recurrent fever for two years and was checked up in several hospitals with the only outcome of hypogammaglobulinemia. He could not go to school for 90 days. He underwent clinical examination and lab tests that s...

Più esami che dolori

A. Pirrone

2015/9 — pag. 598-600

I dintorni della Münchausen attraverso i casi

E. Panontin, S. Nider, M. Tubaro, V. Vellante

2014/8 — pag. 497-510

Profondo rosso: il caso

M. Ronconi

2014/8 — pag. 497-510

Chi era il barone di Münchausen

G. Cozzi

2014/8 — pag. 497-510

Matteo… ci è o ci fa?

M. Torresin, C. Gatto, M.C. Lia, A. Tonetto, I. Giuseppin, V. Calabrese, T. Guerrera, A. Camolese, M. Ranieri, D. Maschietto, P.G. Flora

2014/2 — pag. 104-105

La sindrome di Münchausen by proxy

Z. Cannioto, F. Marchetti, E. Da Dalt, S. Brusa, A. Ventura

2009/5 — pag. 309-318

Münchausen by proxy syndrome (MBPs) is a form of child abuse in which a parent (especially the mother) fabricates or directly produces illness in a dependent child. It represents an insidious type of child abuse that occurs in a medical setting. An...

Un prurito insopportabile...

T. Basso, F. Favot, G. Stinco

2006/5 — pag. 321-322

Il disturbo somatoforme e fittizio

F. Marchetti, M. Lazzerini, R. Aliverti, A. Ventura

2004/6 — pag. 377-381

Somatoform disorders are common among children and adolescents. The authors describes the clinical history of 4 out of 8 cases with somatoform or factitious disorders referred to the Hospital during a period of one year (total number of admission: ...

Il malingering come causa di ricovero ospedaliero

2002/6 — pag. 391-392

Report on 8 patients hospitalised during a period of 2 months (out of 130) on account of malingering; out of them, 5 had simulated hyperpyrexia for a long time, one had sham episodes of hypoglycaemia, two of pains and three of hemorrage....

Falsificazione di malattia nel bambino e nell’adolescente

Pediatrics 2000; 105: 336

2002/5 — pag. 316

Una bambina con le stigmate

M.C. Alberelli, L. Pavanello, M. Corazza

2000/2 — pag. 111-112

Una bimba a bocca aperta

A. Lavecchia

1998/7 — pag. 465-466