Metastatic basal cell carcinoma with squamous differentiation: Report of a case with response of cutaneous metastases to electrochemotherapy

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1186-1188

  Fantini, Fabrizio ^a,b   Gualdi, Giulio ^a   Cimitan, Augusto ^a   Giannetti, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN SULFATE; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY VEIN; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BONE METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOTOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MEDIASTINUM METASTASIS; METASTASIS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN METASTASIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SQUAMOUS CELL;

AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51949102530     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.144.9.1186     Document Type: Article

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