sindrome di Munchausen per procura

Mangiarsi dal dolore

Persoglia M.

2026/3 — pag. 184-187 — DOI

A 16-year-old boy with Cornelia de Lange syndrome and severe sensory disabilities presented with a sudden worsening of self-injurious behaviour. After ruling out common gastrointestinal complications associated with his condition, a thorough dental e...

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...

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...

Un abuso molto particolare

V. Vezzetti

2014/1

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...

Una strana macroematuria

G. Nassimbeni, T. Basso, P. Brovedani, F. Fior, R. Pettarin, A. Calligaris

1998/7 — pag. 465-466