Cryosurgery during imiquimod cream treatment ("immunocryosurgery" ) for Bowen's disease of the skin: A case series

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 533-534

  Gaitanis, Georgios ^a   Mitsou, Georgia ^a   Tsiouri, Georgia ^a   Alexis, Ioannis ^a   Bassukas, Ioannis D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSIDATE SODIUM; FUSIDIC ACID; IMIQUIMOD;

ADULT; AGED; BOWEN DISEASE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRYOSURGERY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINOQUINOLINES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BOWEN'S DISEASE; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CRYOSURGERY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OINTMENTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957674190     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0896     Document Type: Letter

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