The psycho-social impact of facial skin cancers

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Caddick, J ^a   Green, L ^a   Stephenson, J ^b   Spyrou, G ^a  

^a PINDERFIELDS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER SURGERY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FACE CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN CANCER; SKIN GRAFT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

AGED; BODY IMAGE; COHORT STUDIES; COUNSELING; ESTHETICS; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84864652561     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: 18780539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2012.02.022     Document Type: Letter

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