Fatal non-thrombotic pulmonary embolization in a patient with undiagnosed factitious disorder

BACKGROUND: Factitious fever is extremely challenging to diagnose in patients with complicated chronic medical problems, and represents as much as 10% of fevers of unknown origin. Factitious fever caused by self-injecting oral medications through indwelling central catheters is a diagnostic challeng...

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Autores principales: Kwon, Younghoon, Koene, Ryan J, Cross, Caroline, McEntee, Jennifer, Green, Jaime S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4499184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26164684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1265-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4499184/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26164684
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1265-y

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