Clinicopathologic features of primary merkel cell carcinoma: A detailed descriptive analysis of a large contemporary cohort

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1009-1016

  Schwartz, Jennifer L ^a   Bichakjian, Christopher K ^a   Lowe, Lori ^a   Griffith, Kent A ^a   Frohm, Marcus L ^a   Fullen, Douglas R ^a   Hayman, James A ^a   Lao, Christopher D ^b   Shah, Khooshbu S ^b   McLean, Scott A ^a   Bradford, Carol R ^a   Johnson, Timothy M ^a   Wong, Sandra L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SIZE; CAUCASIAN; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THYROID CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; COHORT STUDIES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84879886170     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dsu.12194     Document Type: Article

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