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. 2022 Dec;61(12):e478-e480.
doi: 10.1111/ijd.16010. Epub 2021 Nov 23.

Contextualization of skin cancer incidence rates across Costa Rican provinces

Benjamin Gallo Marin  1 , David X Zheng  2 , Andres Amaya  1 , Daniel Marin Gamboa  3 , Fabio S Frech  4 , Kathleen M Mulligan  2 , Rocío Oliva  1 , Arturo Soto  5 , Helena Kuhn  1
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Contextualization of skin cancer incidence rates across Costa Rican provinces

Benjamin Gallo Marin et al. Int J Dermatol. 2022 Dec.
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Figure 1.
Correlation between incidence of skin cancer in 2014 and estimated proportional density of dermatologists per 100,000 individuals across Costa Rican provinces
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