A rapidly growing squamous cell carcinoma or keratoacanthoma or both?

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 447-448

  Wilsmann Theis, Dagmar ^a   Wenzel, Jörg ^a   Betten, Hilke H ^a   Kukuk, Guido ^a   Bieber, Thomas ^a   Schmid Wendtner, Monika H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IONIZING RADIATION; KERATOACANTHOMA; LETTER; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUNLIGHT; TUMOR GROWTH; VIRUS INFECTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TUMOR; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACIAL DERMATOSES; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; KERATOACANTHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 38449088952     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0294     Document Type: Letter

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