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20 December 2025

Operating Standard of Alpha Hydroxy Acid Chemical Peel

Xi Gao1 Congmin Wang2* Junhong An3 Lin Shen4
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1 University-town Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing 401331, China
2 The Seventh Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100010, China
3 The First Hospital of Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan 030000, Shanxi, China
4 The First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100010, China
AMCMR 2025 , 1(4), 1–12; https://doi.org/10.61369/AMCMR.202504001
© 2025 by the Author. Licensee Art and Design, USA. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ )
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