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Section 15. Dermatologic and Sensory Organ Disorders
Chapter 122. Aging and the Skin

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Photoaging

Photoaging

Photoaged skin is characterized by fine and coarse wrinkling, irregular mottled pigmentation, lentigines, roughness, and sallowness.

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