Farmers develop more aggressive histologic subtypes of basal cell carcinoma. Experience from a Tertiary Hospital in Northern Greece

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2016, Pages 17-20

  Apalla, Z ^a   Lallas, A ^a   Sotiriou, E ^a   Lazaridou, E ^a   Vakirlis, E ^a   Trakatelli, M ^a,b   Kyrgidis, A ^c   Ioannides, D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b SAINT PIERRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH INSURANCE; SKIN INJURY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATHOLOGY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FARMERS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84962521936     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jdv.13605     Document Type: Article

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