High prevalence of personality abnormalities in patients seeking rhinoplasty

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-87

  Zojaji, Ramin ^a   Javanbakht, Maryam ^a   Ghanadan, Alireza ^b   Hosien, Hosien ^a   Sadeghi, Hasan ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MALE; MANIA; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; NOSE RECONSTRUCTION; OBSESSION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHASTHENIA; PSYCHOPATHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DECEPTION; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MALE; OCCUPATIONS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHINOPLASTY; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 34250769497     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2007.02.027     Document Type: Article

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