Micrometastasis to in-transit lymph nodes from extremity and truncal malignant melanoma

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 444-448

  Thelmo, Marylou C ^a   Morita, Eugene T ^a   Treseler, Patrick A ^a   Nguyen, Luyen Huu ^a   Allen, Robert E ^a   Sagebiel, Richard W ^a   Kashani Sabet, Mohammed ^a   Leong, Stanley P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

In transit sentinel lymph node; Melanoma; Micrometastasis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MELANOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THORAX;

EID: 0035009619     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/aso.2001.8.5.444     Document Type: Article

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