Surgery and electrochemotherapy for the treatment of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma in a yellow-bellied slider (Trachemys scripta scripta)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 246, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 455-457

  Lanza, Andrea ^a   Baldi, Alfonso ^b   Spugnini, Enrico P ^c  

^a Centro Veterinario Gianicolense   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c The Biopulse Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPTILIA; TESTUDINES; TRACHEMYS SCRIPTA SCRIPTA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIBIOTIC; BLEOMYCIN;

ANIMAL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURGERY; TURTLE; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TURTLES;

EID: 84922031736     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: 1943569X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.246.4.455     Document Type: Article

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