Prednisone-Induced Munchausen Syndrome
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
- Vol. 135 (9) , 852-853
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1981.02130330062020
Abstract
• An adolescent girl with factitious Cushing's syndrome underwent several years of intricate (and expensive) laboratory investigations before she was discovered to have been taking large doses of prednisone. (Am J Dis Child 1981;135:852-853)This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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