Merkel cell carcinoma after kidney transplant. Extreme conditions of imprisonment as the indirect cause of death;Merkel-zell-karzinom nach nierentransplantation. Extreme lebensumstände als mittelbare todesursache

Pathologe

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 308-312

  Bartsch, C ^a   Mechtersheimer, G ^b   Helmchen, B ^b   Krempien, B ^b  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extreme conditions of imprisonment; Immunosuppressive therapy; Kidney transplantation; Merkel cell carcinoma; Post transplant neoplasm

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY ALLOGRAFT; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; METASTASIS; NEPHRECTOMY; POLITICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRECANCER; PRISON; PRISONER;

EID: 0036916080     PISSN: 01728113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00292-002-0544-2     Document Type: Article

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