Cutaneous melanoma extirpated with insufficient surgical margins

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 296-298

  Serrano Ortega, S ^a   Ruiz Villaverde, R ^a   Blasco Melguizo, J ^a   Linares Solano, J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SAN CECILIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Surgical margins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKIN SCAR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MELANOMA; MOHS SURGERY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SPAIN;

EID: 0038025426     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-3083.2003.00798.x     Document Type: Article

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