Selective lymph node dissection in patients with intermediate thickness melanoma: Our experience

Anticancer Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1 B, 2000, Pages 497-500

  Cafiero, Ferdinando ^a,b   Peressini, Alberto ^a   Percivale, Pier Luigi ^a   Rainero, Maria Luisa ^a   Faggioni, Marta ^a   Gipponi, Marco ^b   Queirolo, Paola ^a   Nicolo, Guido ^b   Bertoglio, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lymphatic mapping; Melanoma; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

DYE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; COLORING AGENTS; EOSINE YELLOWISH-(YS); EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTIONS; HEMATOXYLIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; ROSANILINE DYES; S100 PROTEINS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STAINING AND LABELING; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; TECHNETIUM TC 99M AGGREGATED ALBUMIN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034027791     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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