Natural killer cell response is a predictor of good outcome in MCPyV+ Merkel cell carcinoma: A case series of 23 patients

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 31-32

  Laniosz, Valerie ^a   Onajin, Oluwakemi ^a   Sominidi Damodaran, Sindhuja ^a   Meves, Alexander ^a   Gibson, Lawrence E ^a   Baum, Christian L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; ADULT; CELL COUNT; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SKIN TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CELL COUNT; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MERKEL CELL POLYOMAVIRUS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 85015995842     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2017.02.013     Document Type: Article

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