Informed consent in dermatologic surgery

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 952-955

  Fleischman, Mark ^a   Garcia, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PIGMENT DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECALL; SCAR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN SURGERY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DERMATOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; MOHS SURGERY;

EID: 0042235166     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.2003.29251.x     Document Type: Article

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