Cases with a spontaneous regression of an infiltrating non-crateriform keratoacanthoma and squamous cell carcinoma with a keratoacanthoma-like component

Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 430-434

  Misago, Noriyuki ^a   Takai, Toshihiro ^b   Murata, Yozo ^b   Nagase, Kotaro ^a   Narisawa, Yutaka ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HYOGO CANCER CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

cytological malignancy; keratoacanthoma; non crateriform; regression; squamous cell carcinoma arising in keratoacanthoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATOACANTHOMA; REMISSION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VERY ELDERLY; COMPLICATION; KERATOSIS; LIP DISEASE; LIP TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOACANTHOMA; KERATOSIS; LIP DISEASES; LIP NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM REGRESSION, SPONTANEOUS; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84900032038     PISSN: 03852407     EISSN: 13468138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1346-8138.12454     Document Type: Article

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