Trends in level of evidence in facial plastic surgery research

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1499-1504

  Xu, Caroline C ^a,b   Côté, David W J ^a   Chowdhury, Raiyan H ^a   Morrissey, Andrew T ^a   Ansari, Khalid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FACE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PLASTIC SURGERY; REJUVENATION;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FACE; HUMANS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REJUVENATION; SURGERY, PLASTIC;

EID: 79954988856     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e318208d2c8     Document Type: Article

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