Merkel cell carcinoma: A viral disease?;Le carcinome de Merkel est-il une maladie virale ?

Annales de Dermatologie et de Venereologie

Volumn 135, Issue 6-7, 2008, Pages 503-504

  Misery, L ^a   Boulais, N ^a  

^a CHU MORVAN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ONCOPROTEIN; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; METASTASIS; ONCOGENE; PATHOGENICITY; POLIOMYELITIS VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; POLYOMA VIRUS; SKIN TUMOR; VIROLOGY; VIRUS GENE;

ANIMALS; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; DNA, NEOPLASM; DNA, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 54049120052     PISSN: 01519638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annder.2008.03.020     Document Type: Article

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