Journal article
Health providers induced iatrogenic delusions of infestation
Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology, Vol.12, pp.679-681
01/01/2019
DOI: 10.2147/CCID.S218894
PMCID: PMC6745403
PMID: 31564948
Abstract
Patients that suffer from factitial dermatosis mutilate their skin, often lacking any consciousness of self-injury, attributing the resulting lesions to spontaneous development. The case hereby described shows how the health providers' interventions led a patient from a baseline undiagnosed factitious disorder to frank delusions of infestation with Mycobacterium Kansasii, and a relentless search for antibiotic treatments. We highlight the need for educating health practitioners on the characteristics of psycho-cutaneous disorders.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Health providers induced iatrogenic delusions of infestation
- Creators
- Pooja R. Shah - University of RochesterElizabeth Cusick - University of RochesterYasmine Nousari - Boston CollegeAndrea Sandoz - University of RochesterFrancisco Tausk - University of Rochester
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology, Vol.12, pp.679-681
- DOI
- 10.2147/CCID.S218894
- PMID
- 31564948
- PMCID
- PMC6745403
- NLM abbreviation
- Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol
- ISSN
- 1178-7015
- eISSN
- 1178-7015
- Publisher
- Dove Medical Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 3
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2019
- Academic Unit
- Dermatology
- Record Identifier
- 9984296304702771
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