Eyebrow and eyelid dimensions: An anthropometric analysis of African Americans and Caucasians

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 615-623

  Price, Kristina M ^a   Gupta, Preeya K ^b   Woodward, Julie A ^b   Stinnett, Sandra S ^b   Murchison, Ann P ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA LIMBUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; EYE POSITION; EYEBROW; EYELID; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALPEBRAL FISSURE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTHROPOMETRY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EYEBROWS; EYELIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69249124997     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181addc98     Document Type: Article

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