Immunogenetic factors in skin cancer

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 325, Issue 12, 1991, Pages 884-887

  Streilein, J Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN;

EDITORIAL; HLA MATCHING; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUN EXPOSURE;

HLA ANTIGENS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0025938896     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199109193251210     Document Type: Editorial

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