Mortality and clinicopathological features of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in organ transplant recipients: A study of the Swedish cohort

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 219-222

  Lindelöf, Bernt ^a   Jarnvik, Johan ^a   Ternesten Bratel, Annika ^b   Granath, Fredrik ^a   Hedblad, Mari Anne ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Mortality; Organ transplant recipients; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PAROTID GLAND CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 33745012160     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0069     Document Type: Article

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