Munchausen syndrome mimicking refractory subcutaneous abscess with bacteremia, diagnosed by repetitive element sequence-based polymerase chain reaction: a case report

BACKGROUND: Rapid diagnosis and appropriate treatment of Munchausen syndrome is important not only for the patient but also for health care workers because a delay in diagnosis can worsen patients’ clinical outcomes, and result in a substantial medical cost. CASE PRESENTATION: A young and previously...

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Autores principales: Iwanaga, Naoki, Yamamoto, Kazuko, Takazono, Takahiro, Saijo, Tomomi, Imamura, Yoshifumi, Miyazaki, Taiga, Izumikawa, Koichi, Yamamoto, Yoshihiro, Yanagihara, Katsunori, Yasuoka, Akira, Mukae, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6740024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31511062
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-019-2212-7

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