Remission of transplanted melanoma - Clinical course and tumour cell characterisation

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 565-568

  Elder, Grahame J ^a   Hersey, Peter ^b   Branley, Pauline ^c  

^a Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases   (Australia)

^b JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Donor malignancy; Kidney transplantation; Melanoma; Remission; Tumour cells, cultured

Indexed keywords

B7 ANTIGEN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CADAVER KIDNEY; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; REMISSION; TUMOR CELL;

ADULT; CADAVER; DNA, NEOPLASM; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 0030656567     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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