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J G Morelli

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Misdiagnosis, treatments, and outcomes in the immunobullous diseases in children.

As a group, the immunobullous diseases are very uncommon in childhood. We analyzed all cases of immunobullous diseases in individuals under age 18 years which we had evaluated at the University of Colorado and examined their age of onset, diagnostic difficulties, treatments, and outcomes. This was considered to be a representative North American population within a single referral area which contained a diverse ethnic population mixture. Further, we believe this study to be uniquely uniform in that all the patients were examined by us using the same diagnostic strategy and the immunofluorescent (IF) diagnostic tests were performed by the same individual (J.C. Huff) using uniform diagnostic criteria and consistent IF techniques.

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"Painful and disabling granuloma annulare": a case of Munchausen by proxy.

We report the unusual case of a child who from age 6 received fourteen excisions and four grafting procedures in an attempt to control "painful and disabling granuloma annulare." Although the lesions were considered disabling by the mother, they were nontender on repeated examinations. A careful investigation revealed that the mother was falsely describing symptoms necessitating surgery so she could receive public housing and other benefits for parents with a disabled child. We believe this case should alert the clinician as to the extreme measures imposed on children in Munchausen syndrome by proxy.

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