Baumberger R, Herzka H S, Leuenberger M, Fanconi A
Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrische Tagesklinik Zürich.
Helv Paediatr Acta. 1987 Jun;42(5-6):397-405.
This article reports on the diagnostic results of 232 patients who were examined in close collaboration by the paediatrician and the child psychiatrist at a Swiss children's hospital between 1971 and 1980. The main diagnosis was psychogenic disorders with mainly psychic symptoms in 53.9% of the cases, psychogenic disorders with mainly somatic symptoms in 37.1%, minimal brain damage in 11.2%, and disturbances of development in 8.6%. Psychosomatic symptoms as accessory findings were found in another 30%. Thus, functional somatic disorders were components of the polysymptomatic syndromes in more than 60% of the patients.
