About Face: New Directions for the Physician’s General Survey

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 65-69

  Re, Daniel E ^a   Rule, Nicholas O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

facial adiposity; health; skin redness; skin yellowness; telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958092783     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721415620144     Document Type: Article

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