Chapter 5 - Mental, Behavioral and Neurodevelopmental disorders (F01-F99)»Disorders of adult personality and behavior (F60-F69)»Factitious disorder imposed on another (F68.A)
F68.A
Factitious disorder imposed on another
Related indications (MeSH) (1)
A phenomenon in which symptoms of a disease are fabricated by an individual other than the patient causing unnecessary, and often painful, physical examinations and treatments. This syndrome is considered a form of CHILD ABUSE, since another individual, usually a parent, is the source of the fabrication of symptoms and presents the child for medical care.