Evaluation and treatment of male and female pattern hair loss

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  • AG Messenger
  • D Stough
  • DA Whiting
  • EA Olsen
  • J Shapiro
  • JL Roberts
  • K Washenik
  • MK Hordinsky
  • WF Bergfeld
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volume 8  issue 2

pages  32- 46

publication date 2005-01-01

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