Is there a better term than "medically unexplained symptoms"?

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Published in J Psychosom Res on January 01, 2010

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Francis Creed, Elspeth Guthrie, Per Fink, Peter Henningsen, Winfried Rief, Michael Sharpe, Peter White

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