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Thickness of actinic elastosis a surrogate marker of chronic UV-damage: A post mortem analysis of 41 cases
Margareta J Riegler1, Sebastian Mannweiler2, Angelika Sturm1
1Department of Dermatology, Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria.
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