Citation

Guandolo VL. Pediatrics 1985; 75(3): 526-530.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1985, American Academy of Pediatrics)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3975121

Abstract

Primary health care providers are well aware of the physical findings that suggest a child has been intentionally maltreated. Practitioners must also be aware of a more subtle form of child abuse in which the parent victimizes the child by presenting fictitious medical history that initiates a sequence of unnecessary diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. A 4 1/2-year saga of such a case, an example of Munchausen syndrome by proxy in the outpatient setting, is reported.

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