Surgical treatment of lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma

Australasian Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-30

  Hill, Dudley C ^a   Gramp, Amanda A ^b  

^a Wakefield Clinic   (Australia)

^b Gramp Skin Pathology   (Australia)

Author keywords

Paraffin sections; Surgical excision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FACE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HUTCHINSON'S MELANOTIC FRECKLE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SCALP; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033049954     PISSN: 00048380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0960.1999.00311.x     Document Type: Article

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