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Plastic surgery and Munchausen's syndrome: ‘surgeon, beware!’

✍ Scribed by Davide Lazzeri; Gianfranco Romeo; Maurizio De Rosa; Giordano Giannotti; Livio Colizzi; Marco Stabile; Gianluca Gatti; Fulvio Lorenzetti; Daniele Gandini; Marcello Pantaloni

Book ID
119202411
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
290 KB
Volume
63
Category
Article
ISSN
1878-0539

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