Metastatic melanoma of unknown primary origin shows prognostic similarities to regional metastatic melanoma: Recommendations for initial staging examinations

Cancer

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 60-65

  Schlagenhauff, Bettina ^a   Stroebel, Waltraud ^a   Ellwanger, Ulf ^a   Meier, Friedegund ^a   Zimmermann, Caroline ^a   Breuninger, Helmut ^a   Rassner, Gernot ^a   Garbe, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metastatic melanoma; Staging; Survival rates; Unknown primary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030912877     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19970701)80:1<60::AID-CNCR8>3.0.CO;2-J     Document Type: Article

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