Successful treatment of penile Kaposi's sarcoma with electrochemotherapy

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 839-843

  Curatolo, Pietro ^a   Mancini, Monica ^a   Ruggiero, Arianna ^a   Clerico, Rita ^a   Di Marco, Piero ^a   Calvieri, Stefano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; VINBLASTINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PENIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44849142220     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2008.34157.x     Document Type: Article

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