Skin cancers in renal transplant recipients: A description of the renal transplant cohort in Bern

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 140, Issue JULY, 2010, Pages

  Keller, Beat ^a   Braathen, Lasse R ^a   Marti, Hans Peter ^b   Hunger, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Immunosuppression; Preventive strategies; Regular follow up; Risk factors; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID; PREDNISONE; RAPAMYCIN; TACROLIMUS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RISK; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MELANOMA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN COLOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT DURATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; IMMUNOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRECANCER; RISK FACTOR; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; KERATOSIS, ACTINIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRECANCEROUS CONDITIONS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SWITZERLAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959585936     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2010.13036     Document Type: Article

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