Merkel Cell Carcinoma: Report of Seven Cases

ORL

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 370-374

  Karapantzos, Ilias ^a   Tsaroucha, Alexandra ^a,b   Polychronidis, Alexandros ^a   Simopoulos, Constantinos ^a   Simasko, Nicolas ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Merkel cell; Radiotherapy; Skin neoplasms; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; METASTASIS; PAROTIDECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1442352367     PISSN: 03011569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076057     Document Type: Article

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