Validity of patient skin cancer report among organ transplant recipients

Clinical Transplantation

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Dybbro, Eric ^a   Mihalis, Eva ^b   Hirose, Ryutaro ^a   Arron, Sarah T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Correct classification; Organ transplant recipients; Patient self report; Skin cancer history; Transplant dermatology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; METASTASIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN CANCER; SKIN CARE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; RISK; SELF REPORT; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84859842763     PISSN: 09020063     EISSN: 13990012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2012.01601.x     Document Type: Article

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