Dermatitis Artefacta: Growing Awareness
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Dermatitis Artefacta
History.?She said she had been troubled with irregular febrile attacks for the past two years. About fifteen months ago she received an injury to her left hand from a piece of bamboo, and the resulting ulcer persisted for about ten months. The present lesions began to appear shortly after the initial injury; at first they were pn the left forearm, not far from the injured spot, and in the last ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0253-7176,0975-1564
DOI: 10.4103/0253-7176.140760