Presentation, Course, and Outcome of Head and Neck Skin Cancer in African Americans: A Case-Control Study

Laryngoscope

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1159-1163

  Singh, Bhuvanesh ^a   Bhaya, Mahesh ^a   Shaha, Ashok ^a   Har El, Gady ^a   Lucente, Frank ^a  

^a SUNY Downstate Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

basal cell carcinoma; head and neck neoplasms; racial differences; Skin neoplasms; squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER SURGERY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NEGRO; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUN EXPOSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031826961     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199808000-00011     Document Type: Article

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