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Prevalence and characteristics of body dysmorphic disorder in Arab dermatology patients

Mohammed A. AlShahwan
Saudi Medical Journal January 2020, 41 (1) 73-78; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.1.24784
Mohammed A. AlShahwan
From the Dermatology Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 41 no. 1 73-78
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.1.24784
PubMed 
31915798

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 19, 2019
  • Accepted November 24, 2019
  • Published online January 1, 2020.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Mohammed A. AlShahwan, MD⇑
  1. From the Dermatology Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Mohammed A. AlShahwan, Dermatology Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: malshahwan{at}ksu.edu.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1694-4383
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