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Factitious skin lesions in a mother and two sons
Author(s) -
STANKLER L.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1977.tb15069.x
Subject(s) - dermatology , factitious disorder , accidental , medicine , skin lesion , child abuse , poison control , psychiatry , suicide prevention , medical emergency , physics , acoustics
SUMMARY A family is described in which a woman, probably in a state of ‘hysterical conversion’, produced factitious lesions in her own skin (dermatitis artefacta) and in the skin of two sons (child abuse). Non‐accidental injury to a child's skin may form part of a spectrum of skin artefacts in the parent.