Skin metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma in four Chinese patients

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 28-31

  Luk, N M ^a   Yu, K H ^b   Choi, C L ^b   Yeung, W K ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (Hong Kong)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHINESE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON RADIATION; EPISTAXIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMAN; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECK METASTASIS; PAIN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKIN METASTASIS; SKIN NODULE; STROKE;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOPSY; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0842287396     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2004.01427.x     Document Type: Article

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