Clinical and epidemiologyic profile of melanoma patients according to sun exposure of the tumor site;Perfil clínico y epidemiológico de los pacientes con melanoma cutáneo según el grado de exposición solar de la localización del melanoma

Actas Dermo-Sifiliograficas

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 205-211

  Nagore, E ^a   Botella Estrada, R ^a   Requena, C ^a   Serra Guillen C ^a   Martorell, A ^a   Hueso, L ^a   Llombart, B ^a   Sanmartin O ^a   Guillen C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Epidemiolog a; Epidemiology; Exposici n solar; Melanoma; Sun exposure

Indexed keywords

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LENTIGO; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; PHENOTYPE; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNLIGHT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 65549148775     PISSN: 00017310     EISSN: 15782190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1578-2190(09)70046-0     Document Type: Article

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