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Date Published: 09/10/2022
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v518i2.3450
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Vol. 518 No. 2 (2022)
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Văn San, B., Việt Quang, N. ., Thị Mỹ Hạnh, V. ., Việt Hà, N. ., Thu Hà, N., Trâm Anh, B. ., & Nguyễn Ngọc, T. . (2022). DELUSIONAL PREGNANCY OR PSEUDOCYESIS?. Vietnam Medical Journal, 518(2). https://doi.org/10.51298/vmj.v518i2.3450

DELUSIONAL PREGNANCY OR PSEUDOCYESIS?

Bùi Văn San1,2,, Nguyễn Việt Quang3, Vũ Thị Mỹ Hạnh1, Nguyễn Việt Hà1, Nguyễn Thu Hà1, Bùi Trâm Anh1, Trần Nguyễn Ngọc1,2
1 Hanoi Medical University
2 National Mental Health Institute, Bach Mai Hospital
3 National Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Abstract

False pregnancy can be a mental illness or an unspecified somatic symptom disorder. In this report, we present a case of a 24-year-old female patient who was hospitalized with “post-operative scar”, previously showing symptoms such as missed menstrual period, enlarged abdomen, thought she was pregnant. The patient was admitted to the hospital with a scar below the umbilicus, like a cesarean section. Through the process of examining and monitoring patients, 3 hypotheses were raised: delusional pregnancy, pseudocyesis or simulated pregnancy.

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delusional pregnancy, pseudocyesis, pseudopregnancy, simulated pregnancy

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