Conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma arising in immunosuppressed patients (organ transplant, human immunodeficiency virus infection)

Ophthalmology

Volumn 118, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Shields, Carol L ^a   Ramasubramanian, Aparna ^a   Mellen, Phoebe L ^a   Shields, Jerry A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA2B INTERFERON; CORTICOSTEROID; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONJUNCTIVAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ENUCLEATION; EYE CANCER; EYE SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KIDNEY PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

EID: 80255132678     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.04.001     Document Type: Article

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