The prognosis of patients with thick primary melanomas: Is regional lymph node status relevant, and does removing positive regional nodes influence outcome?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 719-722

  Thompson, John F ^a,b   Shaw, Helen M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; ULCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036791914     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2002.08.013     Document Type: Editorial

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