Giant basal cell carcinoma: Clinicopathological analysis of 51 cases and review of the literature

Anticancer Research

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2655-2663

  Archontaki, Maria ^a,c   Korkolis, Dimitris P ^a   Arnogiannaki, Niki ^a   Vassiliadis, Vasilios ^a   Liapakis, Ioannis E ^a   Christ, Hildegard ^b   Kokkalis, Georgios ^a  

^a SAINT SAVVAS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Giant basal cell carcinoma; Reconstruction; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA BASE; FOLLOW UP; GIANT CELL CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 69249222853     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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