Multiple self-healing squamous epithelioma of Ferguson-Smith: Observations in a Danish family covering four generations

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-56

  Broesby Olsen, Sigurd ^a   Bygum, Anette ^a   Gerdes, Anne Marie ^a   Brandrup, Flemming ^a  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Ferguson Smith disease; MSSE; Multiple keratoacanthomas of Ferguson Smith; Multiple self healing squamous epithelioma; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

IMIQUIMOD;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOTHERAPY; DENMARK; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUN EXPOSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DENMARK; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; KERATOACANTHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; PEDIGREE; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38949145721     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0359     Document Type: Article

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