The risk of skin cancer in renal transplant recipients in Queensland, Australia: A follow-up study

Transplantation

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 715-721

  Bouwes Bavinck, Jan N ^a   Hardie, David R ^b   Green, Adele ^c   Cutmore, Suzanne ^b   Macnaught, Andrew ^b   O'Sullivan, Brendan ^b   Siskind, Victor ^d   Van Der Woude, Fokko J ^a   Hardie, Ian R ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY GRAFT REJECTION; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN CANCER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INFANT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0344775175     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199603150-00008     Document Type: Article

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