Patient characteristics, treatment, and outcome of unknown primary melanoma in the United States for the years 1981 and 1987

American Surgeon

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 400-406

  Sutherland, Carl M ^a   Chmiel, Joan S ^b   Bieligk, Samuel ^a   Henson, Donald E ^c   Winchester, David P ^d  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; CANCER SURVIVAL; EYE CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MUCOSA; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; SKIN CANCER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029979651     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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