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. 1995 Jun;72(6):530–534. doi: 10.1136/adc.72.6.530

Is Munchausen syndrome by proxy really a syndrome?

G C Fisher 1, I Mitchell 1
PMCID: PMC1511146  PMID: 7618943

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