Surgical margins for melanoma: Is 2 cm too much?

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 251-252

  Balch, Charles M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EDITORIAL; ERROR; HUMAN; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOMA; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; SKIN METASTASIS; SURGEON; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CICATRIX; HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036094967     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-2197.2002.02374.x     Document Type: Editorial

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