Outcome of patients with melanoma and histologically negative sentinel lymph nodes

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 381-387

  Gadd, Michele A ^a   Cosimi, A Benedict ^a   Yu, Jeanne ^a   Duncan, Lyn M ^a   Yu, Lawrence ^a   Flotte, Thomas J ^a   Souba, Wiley W ^a   Ott, Mark J ^a   Wong, Lisa S ^a   Sober, Arthur J ^a   Mihm, Martin C ^a   Haluska, Frank G ^a   Tanabe, Kenneth K ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE; ISOSULFAN BLUE; TECHNETIUM SULFUR COLLOID TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER RECURRENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKIN TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033009823     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.134.4.381     Document Type: Conference Paper

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