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    Merkel cell carcinoma: a population-based study on mortality and the association with other cancers

    Few population-based epidemiological data are available on Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), a rare lethal non-melanoma skin cancer. We analysed multiple-cause-of-death records to describe MCC mortality and trends ...

    Valeria Ascoli, Giada Minelli, Mark Kanieff, Luisa Frova in Cancer Causes & Control (2011)

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    La puntura di artropodi ematofagi quale possible cofattore nella trasmissione di HHV8 (Human Herpes Virus 8) e nell’espressione del sarcoma di Kaposi

    Based on a review of the literature on human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8) and Kaposi’ sarcoma (KS) and on the distribution of KS in Italy (Veneto in particular), we hypotrhesize that the bite of bloodsucking arthropod...

    Bruno Arcà, Carlo Costantini, Mario Coluzzi, Valeria Ascoli in Rendiconti Lincei (2002)