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David B Sarwer1, Linton A Whitaker

  • 1Departments of Psychiatry and Surgery (Sarwer) The Edwin and Fannie Gray Hall Center for Human Appearance, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa. (Whitaker).

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