Declining incidence and later occurrence of Kaposi's sarcoma among persons with AIDS in Australia: The Australian AIDS cohort

AIDS

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1401-1406

  Dore, Gregory J ^a   Li, Yueming ^a   Grulich, Andrew E ^a   Hoy, Jennifer F ^b   Mallal, Simon A ^c   Mijch, Anne M ^b   French, Martyn A ^c   Cooper, David A ^a,d   Kaldor, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b AIDS Unit Fairfield Infect Diseases Hospital   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

AIDS; Australia; Epidemiology; Kaposi's sarcoma

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER INCIDENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 0029744430     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199610000-00013     Document Type: Article

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