Merkel cell carcinoma of the skin. Treatment of primary, recurrent, and metastatic disease: Review of clinical cases

Anticancer Research

Volumn 17, Issue 1 B, 1997, Pages 673-677

  Queirolo, Paola ^a,b   Gipponi, Marco ^b   Peressini, Alberto ^b   Disomma, Carmine F ^b   Vecchio, Stefania ^a   Raposio, Edoardo ^b   Guenzi, Marina ^b   Sertoli, Mario Roberto ^a   Cafiero, Erdinando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Merkel cell carcinoma therapy primary disease recurrent disease metastatic disease

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031055772     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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