Factitious hemiplegia and Munchausen's syndrome
Biver, F.; Delvenne, V.; Hirsch, D.; Lotstra, F.
Acta Neurologica Belgica 92(5): 289-295
1992
ISSN/ISBN: 0300-9009 PMID: 1471466 Document Number: 392872
We report a case of a thirty-year-old woman suffering from chronic factitious disorder with hemiplegia. Such a pathomimia is very uncommon in Munchausen's syndrome. Indeed, most often, the clinical picture is characterised by acute abdominal pain, fainting, haemoptysis, precordialgia, hematemesis or dermatological lesions.