Factitious lesions of the hand()

The presence of a lesion with atypical presentation, obscure clinical history, which does not improve with classic treatments, shall raise the red flag of the medical team. In such cases, the hypothesis of a factitious lesion shall be considered. Many times the correct diagnosis on the initial asses...

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Autores principales: Oliveira, Ricardo Kaempf de, Bayer, Leohnard Roger, Lauxen, Daniel, Roth, Felipe, Serrano, Pedro Delgado, Ruschel, Paulo Henrique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6565958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31304138
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rboe.2012.09.008
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author Oliveira, Ricardo Kaempf de
Bayer, Leohnard Roger
Lauxen, Daniel
Roth, Felipe
Serrano, Pedro Delgado
Ruschel, Paulo Henrique
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description The presence of a lesion with atypical presentation, obscure clinical history, which does not improve with classic treatments, shall raise the red flag of the medical team. In such cases, the hypothesis of a factitious lesion shall be considered. Many times the correct diagnosis on the initial assessment may avoid high-cost diagnostic tests, unnecessary treatments, and time consumption of the medical team. We present here two classic cases of factitious lesions that, similar to those described in the literature, is difficult to diagnose and difficult to treat.
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spelling pubmed-65659582019-07-12 Factitious lesions of the hand() Oliveira, Ricardo Kaempf de Bayer, Leohnard Roger Lauxen, Daniel Roth, Felipe Serrano, Pedro Delgado Ruschel, Paulo Henrique Rev Bras Ortop Case Report The presence of a lesion with atypical presentation, obscure clinical history, which does not improve with classic treatments, shall raise the red flag of the medical team. In such cases, the hypothesis of a factitious lesion shall be considered. Many times the correct diagnosis on the initial assessment may avoid high-cost diagnostic tests, unnecessary treatments, and time consumption of the medical team. We present here two classic cases of factitious lesions that, similar to those described in the literature, is difficult to diagnose and difficult to treat. Elsevier 2013-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6565958/ /pubmed/31304138 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rboe.2012.09.008 Text en © 2013 Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia. Published by Elsevier Editora. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Oliveira, Ricardo Kaempf de
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