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Developmental influences on medically unexplained symptoms.
Psychotherapy and psychosomatics - 1 Jan 2009
Buffington C A Tony
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Medically unexplained (or 'functional') symptoms (MUS) are physical symptoms that prompt the sufferer to seek healthcare but remain unexplained after an appropriate medical evaluation. Examples of MUS also occur in veterinary medicine. For example, domestic cats suffer a syndrome comparable to interstitial cystitis, a chronic pelvic pain syndrome of humans. METHOD: Review of current evidence suggests...
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