Dermatitis artefacta

Dermatitis artefacta, also known as factitious dermatitis, is a condition in which cutaneous lesions are self-inflicted and are the result or manifestation of some psychological conflicts. This report presents the case of a 20-year-old man, whose initial presentation resembled a dermatological disor...

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Autores principales: Tamakuwala, Bimal, Shah, Parag, Dave, Kamlesh, Mehta, Ritambhara
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2005
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2921142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20711314
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.43061
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author Tamakuwala, Bimal
Shah, Parag
Dave, Kamlesh
Mehta, Ritambhara
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description Dermatitis artefacta, also known as factitious dermatitis, is a condition in which cutaneous lesions are self-inflicted and are the result or manifestation of some psychological conflicts. This report presents the case of a 20-year-old man, whose initial presentation resembled a dermatological disorder. Psychological and personality factors as well as issues in the management are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29211422010-08-14 Dermatitis artefacta Tamakuwala, Bimal Shah, Parag Dave, Kamlesh Mehta, Ritambhara Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Dermatitis artefacta, also known as factitious dermatitis, is a condition in which cutaneous lesions are self-inflicted and are the result or manifestation of some psychological conflicts. This report presents the case of a 20-year-old man, whose initial presentation resembled a dermatological disorder. Psychological and personality factors as well as issues in the management are discussed. Medknow Publications 2005 /pmc/articles/PMC2921142/ /pubmed/20711314 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.43061 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Dermatitis artefacta
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2921142/
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