Skin Cancers after Organ Transplantation

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24 April 2003

journal article
review article
Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine

Vol. 348 (17) , 1681-1691
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra022137

Abstract

Skin cancers are the most common tumors in patients who have received organ transplants. This review discusses the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and management of squamous-cell and basal-cell carcinomas, cancers of the anogenital region, Kaposi's sarcoma, melanoma, neuroendocrine skin carcinoma, and cutaneous manifestations of lymphoma in transplant recipients.

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