The tumor biology of melanoma nodal metastases

American Surgeon

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-88

  Miliotes, Gregory ^a   Albertini, John ^a   Berman, Claudia ^a   Heller, Richard ^a   Messina, Jane ^a   Glass, Frank ^a   Cruse, Wayne ^a   Rapaport, David ^a   Puleo, Chris ^a   Fenske, Neil ^a   Petsoglou, Con ^a   Deconti, Ronald ^a   Lyman, Gary ^a   Reintgen, Douglas ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH FLOW; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; PARESTHESIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RNA, MESSENGER; ROSANILINE DYES; S100 PROTEINS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0030000894     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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