Small-bowel resection for metastatic melanoma

Canadian Journal of Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 199-203

  Al Sheneber, Ihrahim F ^a   Meterissian, Sarkis H ^a   Loutfi, Antoine ^a   Kevin Watters, A ^b   Shibata, Henry R ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; ILEAL NEOPLASMS; JEJUNAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030004391     PISSN: 0008428X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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