Renal transplantation exposes patients with previous Kaposi's sarcoma to a high risk of recurrence

Transplantation

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 463-466

  Doutrelepont, Jean Marc ^a   De Pauw, Luc ^a   Gruber, Scott A ^b   Dunn, David L ^c   Qunibi, Wajeh ^d   Kinnaert, Paul ^a   Vereerstraeten, Pierre ^a   Penn, Israel ^e   Abramowicz, Daniel ^a  

^a ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029843069     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199608270-00007     Document Type: Article

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