Altered Clinical Course of Malignant Melanoma in HIV-Positive Patients
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Altered clinical course of malignant melanoma in HIV-positive patients.
OBJECTIVE To determine whether the natural history of melanoma is different in patients who test positive for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) compared with matched control subjects. DESIGN Retrospective cohort analysis. SETTING Ambulatory care at 2 university-affiliated medical centers. PATIENTS Each HIV-positive melanoma patient (n = 17) was randomly matched with 2 HIV-negative patien...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Dermatology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0003-987X
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.138.6.765