Merkel cell carcinoma: Histologic features and prognosis

Cancer

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2549-2558

  Andea, Aleodor A ^a,c   Coit, Daniel G ^a   Amin, Bijal ^b   Busam, Klaus J ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Cutaneous; Histologic parameters; Merkel cell; Neuroendocrine; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORPHOLOGY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTOSIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR ASSOCIATED LEUKOCYTE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTES, TUMOR-INFILTRATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 55549121216     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.23874     Document Type: Article

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