Cardiac transplant-related cutaneous malignancies in an Australian recipient: Immunosuppression, friend or foe?

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 194-197

  Veness, M J ^a,b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac transplantation; Cutaneous malignancy; Immunosuppression; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; GRAFT REJECTION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

EID: 0031857093     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0936-6555(98)80069-1     Document Type: Article

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