An increase in basal cell carcinoma among the young: An epidemiological study in a middle-south Italian population

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 6 C, 2006, Pages 4979-4983

  Delfino, Sergio ^a,f,g   Innocenzi, Daniele ^a   Di Lorenzo, Giuseppe ^b   Scalvenzi, Massimiliano ^c   Montesarchio, Vincenzo ^d   Feroce, Florinda ^b   Baldi, Alfonso ^b,e   Persichetti, Paolo ^f  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d AO Dei Colli Hospital for Infectious Diseases D Cotugno   (Italy)

^e REGINA ELENA NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^g Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anatomical distribution; Basal cell carcinoma; Histopathological subtype; Tumour aggressiveness; Young population

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33845956092     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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