[Precocious and polymorphic factitious disorder].
OBJECTIVE: Pathomimia is a mental disease more frequently diagnosed in women, characterised by a wide range of somatic or psychiatric symptoms, and a chronic course with severe complications. CASE REPORT: A 22-year-old woman was suffering from severe factitious disorders with thermopathomimia, dermopathomimia, self-injuries with induced abscess, Lasthenie de Ferjol syndrome, and psychiatric factitious disorder. A very precocious age at onset and a previous history of 37 surgical operations were found. DISCUSSION: This case history is particularly relevant in showing the clinical multiplicity of factitious disorders.
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