Itch and pain in nonmelanoma skin cancer: Pain as an important feature of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1422-1423

  Mills, Kyle C ^a   Kwatra, Shawn G ^a   Feneran, Ashley N ^a   Pearce, Daniel J ^a   Williford, Phillip M ^a   D'Agostino, Ralph B ^a   Yosipovitch, Gil ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN CARCINOMA; SKIN PAIN; SKIN PRURITUS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84871395574     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2012.3104     Document Type: Article

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