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Skin aging (overview)

Skin aging (overview) Definition The skin aging process is essentially composed of 2 processes:Biological or endogenous ageing (ageing) also intrinsic skin ageingenvironmental ageing or exogenous ageing (especially light ageing) also extrinsic skin ageing Etiopathogenesis Polyetiologic endogenous...

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