Munchausen's Syndrome: A Case Report with Multiple Symptoms

A Patient with Severe Cervicofacial Subcutaneous Emphysema Associated with Munchausen’s Syndrome: A Case Report

“…The patient underwent a tracheotomy to secure the airway. Yucel et al ( 5 ) forwarded a case of an adolescent with orbital emphysema. The authors performed a tracheostomy, anteroposterior nasal packing.…”

Migration of a foreign object to the parapharyngeal space: an unusual factitious disorder

“…To date there has been no case of a needle migration to the parapharyngeal space as a result of factitious behavior in the literature. 5 The PPS occupies the space between the muscles of mastication and the muscles of deglutition. It is shaped like a pyramid, inverted with its base at the skull base, with its apex inferiorly pointing to the greater cornu of the hyoid bone.…”

Trastornos somatomorfos y conversivos en otorrinolaringología pediátrica: revisión de la literatura

“…Yucel y cols. 29 reportaron el caso de una adolescente de 16 años que consultó por un aumento de volumen orbitario que luego evolucionó hasta la región parotídea, continuándose de edema facial difuso que se extendió hasta la región preesternal, asociado a estridor. Tras múltiples evaluaciones diagnósticas invasivas con resultados negativos, la paciente presentó disnea y convulsiones, siendo intubada tres veces y luego traqueostomizada.…”