Epidemiologic and clinical features of malignant melanoma in young adults under age 30 in the Virgen Macarena healthy area of Sevilla;Características clínicas y epidemiológicas del melanoma cutáneo en adultos jóvenes menores de 30 años en el área sanitaria Virgen Macarena de Sevilla

Medicina Cutanea Ibero-Latino-Americana

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 243-248

  García Morales, Irene ^a,b   Pérez Gil, Amalia ^a   Herrera, Alberto ^a   Camacho, Francisco M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age of onset; Cutaneous melanoma; Epidemiologic studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACK; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; ONSET AGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN ULCER; SPAIN; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 13744252970     PISSN: 02105187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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