Multimodality management of Merkel cell carcinoma

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 388-393

  Ott, Mark J ^a,b   Tanabe, Kenneth K ^a   Gadd, Michele A ^a   Stark, Paul ^b   Smith, Barbara L ^a   Finkelstein, Dianne M ^b   Souba, Wiley W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033015129     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.134.4.388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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