Pulmonary Munchausen’s syndrome

Open Access

1 September 1982

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP)

Vol. 58 (683) , 564-565
https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.58.683.564

Abstract

Summary: The scarred abdomen of the patient with Munchausen’s syndrome is a familiar physical sign. We report on a man with Munchausen’s syndrome who had not multiple laparotomies but two thoracotomies.

Keywords

SYNDROME SUMMARY
PULMONARY MUNCHAUSEN
PHYSICAL SIGN
FAMILIAR PHYSICAL
MULTIPLE LAPAROTOMIES
SYNDROME WHO
SCARRED ABDOMEN

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