A prospective study of the incidence of skin cancer and its risk factors in a Spanish Mediterranean population of kidney transplant recipients

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 149, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1221-1226

  Fuente, M J ^a   Sabat, M ^a   Roca, J ^a   Lauzurica, R ^a   Fernandez Figueras M T ^a   Ferrandiz C ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Skin cancer; Transplant

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; DIALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; POPULATION; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN TUMOR; SPAIN; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUN EXPOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; KIDNEY DISEASES; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPAIN;

EID: 0347986601     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2003.05740.x     Document Type: Article

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