Diagnostic biopsy does not commonly induce intratumoral CD8 T cell infiltration in merkel cell carcinoma

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Koba, Shinichi ^a,c   Paulson, Kelly G ^a   Nagase, Kotaro ^a,c   Tegeder, Andrew ^a   Thibodeau, Renee ^a   Iyer, Jayasri G ^a   Narisawa, Yutaka ^c   Nghiem, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CANCER IMMUNOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; REOPERATION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; STUDENT T TEST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

POLYOMAVIRUS;

EID: 84864459399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041465     Document Type: Article

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