The skin cancer index: Clinical responsiveness and predictors of quality of life

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 399-405

  Rhee, John S ^a   Matthews, B Alex ^a   Neuburg, Marcy ^a   Logan, Brent R ^a   Burzynski, Mary ^a   Nattinger, Ann B ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal cell cancer; Quality of life; Skin cancer; Squamous cell cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DERMATOLOGY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCOME; INSTRUMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKIN CANCER; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33947187783     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31802e2d88     Document Type: Article

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