Personality factors and cervical premalignancy

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 883-890

  Kreitler, Shulamith ^b   Levavi, Hanoch ^a   Bornstein, Gideon ^b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 16144367039     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(96)00136-5     Document Type: Article

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