General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 23, Issue 4 , Pages 230-231 , July 2001

A case of Ganser syndrome: organic or hysterical?

  • Hochang Benjamin Lee, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • General Hospital Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
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  • Thomas Koenig, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • General Hospital Psychiatry Service, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA

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General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 23, Issue 4 , Pages 230-231 , July 2001

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