Demographic features of patients seeking cosmetic surgery
Open Access
- 1 May 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences
- Vol. 52 (3) , 283-287
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1819.1998.00388.x
Abstract
The demographic features of 415 patients seeking cosmetic surgery were investigated from a psychiatric point of view. Of the 415 patients, 198 (47.7%) were found to have mental disorders according to...Keywords
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