Malignant tumors in an ancient Egyptian population

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 5 B, 1999, Pages 4273-4277

  Zink, Albert ^a   Rohrbach, Helmut ^a   Szeimies, Ulrike ^a   Hagedorn, Hjalmar G ^b   Haas, Christian J ^a   Weyss, Christin ^a   Bachmeier, Beatrice ^a   Nerlich, Andreas G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ancient Egypt; Bone metastases; Malignant tumors; Tumor frequency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OSTEOSARCOMA; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; EGYPT; FEMALE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MUMMIES; OSTEOLYSIS;

EID: 0032763617     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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