Merkel cell carcinoma: Spontaneous resolution and management of metastatic disease

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-25

  Brown, Tricia J ^a   Jackson, Brooke A ^b   Macfarlane, Deborah F ^c   Goldberg, Leonard H ^d  

^a St Joseph's Medical Center Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DERMSURGERY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CHEMOSURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; HUMANS; LEG; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MOHS SURGERY; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; SCALP; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032976921     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.1999.08142.x     Document Type: Article

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