Desmoplastic squamous cell carcinoma of skin and vermilion surface. A highly malignant subtype of skin cancer

Cancer

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 915-919

  Breuninger, Helmut ^a   Schaumburg Lever, Gundula ^a   Holzschuh, Joachim ^a   Horny, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

desmoplastic type; grading; malignancy; perineural invasion; skin cancer; squamous cell carcinoma; vermilion surface

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIP; LIP NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031054682     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970301)79:5<915::AID-CNCR7>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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