Epidemiology of surgical treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancer of the head and neck in Greece

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 15-22

  Seretis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Thomaidis, Vasilios ^a   Karpouzis, Anthony ^a   Tamiolakis, Dimitrios ^a,c   Tsamis, Ioannis ^a  

^a University Hospital Alexandroupolis   (Greece)

^b G Papanikolaou Hospital   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONMELANOMA SKIN CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; GREECE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 73549094896     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01379.x     Document Type: Article

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