Abstract
Munchausen Syndrome is a type of factitious disorder, characterized by intentional production or feigning of physical or psychological signs or symptoms, history of seeking treatment at numerous hospitals, and/or pathologic lying (pseudologiafantastica). Diagnosing factitious disorder - Munchausen syndrome is very difficult because of the dishonesty that is involved in the nature of the disorder. This syndrome can become costly both financially and time-consuming due to multiple tests, procedures, treatments, and hospitalizations since the patients factitiously produce symptoms and deceive health care professionals. So, it is important to make an early diagnosisfor these cases. In the literature, factitious disorder - Munchausen syndrome was referred commonly as case reports and most of them Included adolescents and adults. In this article, a 9-year-old girl who had applied to many treatment centers due to hemoptysis and whose symptoms could not be explained with any physical reason after many tests were conducted that finally was diagnosed with factitious disorder - Munchausen syndrome upon psychiatric assessment, is presented.
Keywords: Factitious disorder, Munchausen Syndrome, hemoptysis
