Clinical factors associated with malignancy and HIV status in patients with ocular surface squamous neoplasia at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Tanzania

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 482-484

  Makupa, Irma Illyes ^a   Swai, Britta ^a   Makupa, William Uforo ^a   White, Valerie A ^b   Lewallen, Susan ^c  

^a KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Good Samaritan Foundation   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER SURGERY; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; EYE CANCER; EYE EXAMINATION; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCULAR SURFACE SQUAMOUS NEOPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT CANCER; TANZANIA; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, RELIGIOUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858337561     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2011-300485     Document Type: Article

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