Melanoma: Margins for error

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 300-303

  Heenan, Peter J ^a  

^a Cutaneous Pathology   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cutaneous malignant melanoma; Local recurrence; Margins of excision

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; ERROR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; RECURRENCE RISK; SKIN CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME;

HUMANS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0036097034     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-2197.2002.02375.x     Document Type: Note

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