Surgical management of primary cutaneous melanomas of the hands and feet

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 225, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 544-553

  Tseng, Jennifer F ^a   Tanabe, Kenneth K ^a   Gadd, Michele A ^a   Cosimi, A Benedict ^a   Malt, Ronald A ^a   Haluska, Frank G ^a   Mihm, Martin C ^a   Sober, Arthur J ^a   Souba, Wiley W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINGER AMPUTATION; FOOT DISEASE; HAND TUMOR; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN GRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031408325     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199705000-00011     Document Type: Article

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