Tzu Chi Medical Journal
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 342-344 , December 2009

AIDS-related Kaposi's Sarcoma of the Nasopharynx

  • Miao-Chun Yang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
    • School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yung-Hsiang Hsu

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
    • Department of Pathology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Dai-Wei Liu

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
    • Department of Radiation Oncology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yu-Fu Chou

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan
    • School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Otolaryngology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, 707, Section 3, Chung-Yang Road, Hualien, Taiwan

Received 26 September 2008 ,Revised 21 October 2008 ,Accepted 28 October 2008.

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PII: S1016-3190(09)60068-9

doi: 10.1016/S1016-3190(09)60068-9

Tzu Chi Medical Journal
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 342-344 , December 2009

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