Treating basal-cell carcinoma in a real life setting

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 572-573

  Dummer, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID METHYL ESTER; FLUOROURACIL; IMIQUIMOD; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR 7;

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CYTOKINE RELEASE; EROSION; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LETTER; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PLASMACYTOID DENDRITIC CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; AMINOQUINOLINES; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84878364311     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: 14745488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(13)70164-5     Document Type: Letter

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