Skin from various ethnic origins and aging: an in vivo cross‐sectional multimodality imaging study

Background: Ethnic differences in skin structural features have not been thoroughly investigated, and the few reported studies are contradictory. Thus, we have carried out a set of in vivo measurements on the skin of about 400 volunteers from various ethnic origins living in the same environment.

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