Prevalence of merkel cell polyomavirus among Swiss Merkel cell carcinoma patients

Dermatology

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 184-188

  Mangana, Joanna ^a   Dziunycz, Piotr ^a   Kerl, Katrin ^a   Dummer, Reinhard ^a   Cozzio, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carcinogenesis; MCPyV; Merkel cell carcinoma; Polyomavirus

Indexed keywords

VIRUS DNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; MALE; MELANOMA; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYOMA VIRUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CARCINOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MERKEL CELLS; POLYOMAVIRUS; POLYOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 77956342749     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000315067     Document Type: Article

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