Spontaneous regression of recurrent and metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 773-777

  Kubo, Hidemichi ^a,b   Matsushita, Shigeto ^a   Fukushige, Tomoko ^a   Kanzaki, Tamotsu ^a   Kanekura, Takuro ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Merkel cell carcinoma; Spontaneous regression

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; ENOLASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; CHEEK; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOPLASM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; METASTASIS; NICK END LABELING; RECURRENT CANCER; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; TUMOR BIOPSY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; APOPTOSIS; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 35649012558     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: 13468138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2007.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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