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Screening for body dysmorphic disorder among patients pursuing cosmetic surgeries in Saudi Arabia

Hatan Mortada, Hadeel Seraj and Amal Bokhari
Saudi Medical Journal October 2020, 41 (10) 1111-1120; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.10.25380
Hatan Mortada
From the Department of Plastic Surgery & Burn Unit (Mortada), King Saud Medical City, Riyadh; and from the Department of Ophthalmology (Seraj, Bokhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Hadeel Seraj
From the Department of Plastic Surgery & Burn Unit (Mortada), King Saud Medical City, Riyadh; and from the Department of Ophthalmology (Seraj, Bokhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Amal Bokhari
From the Department of Plastic Surgery & Burn Unit (Mortada), King Saud Medical City, Riyadh; and from the Department of Ophthalmology (Seraj, Bokhari), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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