Telltale mouth flora: a clue to the diagnosis of factitious recurrent thigh abscesses.

Abstract:

:A 27-year-old man had recurrent abscesses of the thigh caused by organisms typical of mouth flora. The unusual identity of these organisms from a thigh abscess led to the recognition that the illness was induced by self-injection with saliva, and that the patient had many of the characteristics of Münchausen's syndrome.

journal_name

South Med J

journal_title

Southern medical journal

authors

Selinger DS,Chongsiriwatana K,Froelich CJ,Vogel AV,Kisch AL

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1979-02-01 00:00:00

pages

225-6

issue

2

eissn

0038-4348

issn

1541-8243

journal_volume

72

pub_type

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