Cause-specific mortality in classic Kaposi's sarcoma: a population-based study in Italy (1995-2002).

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Published in Br J Cancer on August 25, 2009

Authors

V Ascoli1, G Minelli, M Kanieff, R Crialesi, L Frova, S Conti

Author Affiliations

1: Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale, Università La Sapienza, Viale Regina Elena 324, 00161 Rome, Italy. valeria.ascoli@uniroma1.it

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