Actinic Keratosis is Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 650-655

  Lober, Bryan Andrew ^b   Lober, Clifford Warren ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER INVASION; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EPIDERMIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; KERATOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOLOGY; PRECANCER; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; KERATOSIS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; PREVALENCE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0034220016     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-200093070-00002     Document Type: Article

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