The Amazons and an analysis of breast mutilation from a plastic surgeon's perspective

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 810-818

  Karacalar, Ahmet ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPUTATION; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTEMISIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CAUTERIZATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; LITERATURE; MASTALGIA; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIGION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIETY;

ANCIENT LANDS; FEMALE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MYTHOLOGY; SELF MUTILATION; TURKEY; WAR;

EID: 33847194673     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000240816.99127.f3     Document Type: Article

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