Primary undifferentiated small cell carcinoma (Merkel cell carcinoma) in a patient after heart transplantation - Case report

Polish Journal of Pathology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 177-180

  Maksymiuk, Beata ^a   Wygoda, Andrzej ^a   Zakliczyński, Michał ^a   Paleń, Piotr ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN; CYTOKERATIN 20; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CASE REPORT; GERM CELL TUMOR; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; KERATIN-20; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036408784     PISSN: 12339687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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