Major dermatologic malignancies encountered in a teaching hospital surgical department in South Nigeria

American Journal of Clinical Dermatology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 383-387

  Asuquo, Maurice E ^a,b   Ngim, Ogbu ^a   Ugare, Gabriel ^a   Omotoso, Joshua ^a   Ebughe, Godwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR   (Nigeria)

^b NONE   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Skin cancer, epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BODY REGIONS; CANCER INCIDENCE; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; EXCISION; FEMALE; HEAD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NECK; NIGERIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL WARD; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NIGERIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA, KAPOSI; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 55249089477     PISSN: 11750561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/0128071-200809060-00004     Document Type: Article

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