Complete remission of Merkel cell carcinoma on the upper lip treated with radiation monotherapy and a literature review of Japanese cases

Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare and aggressive neuroendocrine-derived skin cancer arising most commonly on the sun-exposed head and neck skin of elderly and immunocompromised patients. Although a combination of wide excision and adjuvant radiotherapy is the optimal therapeutic approach for Merkel ce...

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Autores principales: Kitamura, Naoya, Tomita, Riki, Yamamoto, Mayo, Yoshizawa, Yasumasa, Sasabe, Eri, Yamada, Tomohiro, Yamamoto, Tetsuya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-015-0564-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4422042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-015-0564-z

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