Changes in incidence of malignant melanoma in the last 19 years in a tertiary hospital on the mediterranean coast;Evolución del melanoma maligno cutáneo en los últimos 19 años en un hospital terciario de la cuenca mediterránea

Actas Dermo-Sifiliograficas

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 464-468

  Marcoval, Joaquim ^a   Moreno, A ^a   Torras, A ^a   Baumann, E ^a   Graells, J ^a   Gallego, M I ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Breslow thickness; Catalonia; Epidemiology; Melanoma; Skin; Spain

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CARCINOMA IN SITU; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; SPAIN; TREND STUDY;

FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPAIN;

EID: 47049097339     PISSN: 00017310     EISSN: 15782190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1578-2190(08)70290-7     Document Type: Article

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