## ABSTRACT **Objective** To report clinical experience with the rare neuroendocrine Merkel cell carcinoma of the skin. **Subjects and setting** Seventeen patients with Merkel cell carcinoma of the skin treated at the Departments of Dermatology and ENT, Krankenhaus DresdenβFriedrichstadt, Dresden,
The Merkel cell carcinoma: A 50-year retrospect
β Scribed by Robert A. Schwartz; W. Clark Lambert
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 28 KB
- Volume
- 89
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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