Prospective evaluation of selective lymph node biopsy for cutaneous malignant melanoma

American Surgeon

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1051-1058

  Loggie, Brian W ^a   Hosseinian, Art A ^a   Watson, Nat E ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TECHNETIUM TC 99M SULFUR COLLOID;

EID: 0030830747     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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