Citation

Davis D, Barone JE, Blackwood MM. J. Trauma 1997; 42(6): 1179-1181.

Affiliation

Department of Surgery, The Stamford Hospital, Connecticut 06904, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9210565

Abstract

Rarely, a patient with Munchausen syndrome will present with apparent trauma. A computerized literature search from 1966 until the present discovered only three such case reports, none of which appeared in a surgical journal. We report a fourth case. The characteristics of Munchausen syndrome are illustrated. The possibility that such a patient may have a true injury is also discussed.