Acitretin as cancer chemoprophylaxis in a renal transplant recipient.

Dermatology

Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.

Published: February 1993

The use of acitretin in a renal transplant recipient who had been treated for several premalignant and malignant skin lesions is the subject of this case report. During the treatment period no new dysplastic lesions developed.

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