Metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma masquerading as colon cancer

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 856-858

  Shalhub, Sherene ^a   Clarke, Leslie ^b,c   Morgan, Michael B ^a  

^a Florida College   (United States)

^b James A Haley Veteran's Hospital   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; TECHNETIUM;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CANCER; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DUODENAL NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 9244261035     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(04)02173-X     Document Type: Article

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