Merkel cell carcinoma in a patient treated with adalimumab: Case report

Cutis

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 81-84

  Krishna, Sheila M ^a   Kim, Christina N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENT; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DRUG ANTAGONISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SKIN TUMOR;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 79953230177     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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