
@article{ref1,
title="Munchausen syndrome by proxy: an outpatient challenge",
journal="Pediatrics",
year="1985",
author="Guandolo, V. L.",
volume="75",
number="3",
pages="526-530",
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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0031-4005",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}