Malignant skin tumor in blacks: Experience in a teaching hospital

West African Journal of Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 276-278

  Adigun, Ismail A ^a   Buhari, M O ^a   Ayorinde, R O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Blacks; Malignant; Skin tumor

Indexed keywords

ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ANGIOSARCOMA; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BURN SCAR; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FIBROSARCOMA; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG ULCER; LIMB AMPUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; NEGRO; NORTH AMERICA; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; SKIN CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33847645898     PISSN: 0189160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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