Cranial neuropathy as a presenting sign of recurrent aggressive skin cancer

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 483-497

  Leach, Brian C ^a   Kulbersh, Jonathan S ^a   Day, Terry A ^a   Cook, Joel ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BELL PALSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DIPLOPIA; FACE PAIN; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FORMICATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MELANOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 41149146161     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2007.34094.x     Document Type: Article

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