Anal carcinoma in a tropical low socio-economic population in the new millennium: What has changed?

Tropical Doctor

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-9

  Irabor, D O ^a,b   Dongo, A E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; ANUS CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIGERIA; PAIN; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TENESMUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TROPICS; ANUS TUMOR; CARCINOMA; CLASSIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANAL CANAL; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIGERIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64549154015     PISSN: 00494755     EISSN: 17581133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/td.2008.080053     Document Type: Article

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