Treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer in north Sardinia: Is there a need for biopsy?

Acta Chirurgiae Plasticae

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 110-114

  Rubino, C ^a   Soggiu, D ^a   Farace, F ^a,c   Lissia, M ^a   Alfano, C ^b   Campus, G V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biopsy; Diagnosis; Follow up; Non melanoma skin cancer; Recurrences

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EXCISION; FACE CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ITALY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN INCISION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 12144262650     PISSN: 00015423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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