The Results of Treatment of two Hundred and Seventy-Three Carcinomas of the Hand

Abstract

Squamous carcinoma of the hand behaves more aggressively, and is more difficult to cure by non-surgical means, when it arises in the interdigital clefts or adjacent skin over the metacarpo phalangeal joints.

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