Electrochemotherapy with cisplatin: Clinical experience in malignant melanoma patients

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 863-867

  Serša, Gregor ^a,b   Štabuc, Borut ^a   Čemažar, Maja ^a   Miklavčič, Damijan ^a   Rudolf, Zvonimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPIGMENTATION; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CISPLATIN; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034059465     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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