Skin Cancers in Organ Transplant Recipients
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Skin cancer in organ transplant recipients.
Organ transplant recipients (OTR) are at a significantly increased risk for developing a wide variety of skin cancers, particularly epithelial skin cancer, Merkel cell carcinoma and Kaposi's sarcoma. Melanoma, skin adnexal neoplasm and cutaneous lymphomas are also more common in OTR and may differ in their clinicopathologic presentation from tumors in immunocompetent patients. The accuracy of c...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Transplantation
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1600-6135,1600-6143
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.14382