Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa-associated squamous-cell carcinoma: An enigmatic entity with complex pathogenesis

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2295-2296

  Rodeck, Ulrich ^a   Uitto, Jouni ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN TYPE 7;

CANCER PATIENT; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA DYSTROPHICA; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOP CODON; CELL TRANSFORMATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NOTE; RISK FACTOR; SKIN TUMOR;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLLAGEN TYPE VII; EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA DYSTROPHICA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MUTATION; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34848918468     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700939     Document Type: Note

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