Surgical Treatment of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in the Medicare Population

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1167-1169

  Manternach, Tasha ^a   Housman, Tamara Salam ^a   Williford, Phillip M ^a   Teuschler, Hoa ^a   Fleischer Jr , Alan B ^a   Feldman, Steven R ^a   Chen, G John ^a   Rogers, Gary ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Department of Dermatology ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMOSURGERY; EXCISION; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; MELANOMA; NONMELANOMA SKIN CANCER; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN SURGERY; SURGICAL TRAINING;

HUMANS; MEDICARE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0348147678     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2003.29381.x     Document Type: Article

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