Compliance with follow-up and prognosis among patients with thin melanomas

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1504-1509

  Kittler, H ^a   Weitzdorfer, R ^a   Pehamberger, H ^a   Wolff, K ^a   Binder, M ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

Author keywords

Compliance; Follow up; Melanoma; Recurrent disease

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PALPATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THICKNESS; TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034880950     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(01)00153-8     Document Type: Article

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