Ultrasonographic detection of regional lymph node metastases in patients with intermediate or thick malignant melanoma

Oncology Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 505-510

  Brountzos, Elias N ^a   Panagiotou, Irene E ^b   Bafaloukos, Dimitrios I ^b   Kelekis, Dimitrios A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b METAXA CANCER HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Follow up; Malignant melanoma; Regional lymph nodes; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXILLA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PALPATION; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TUMOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXILLA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PALPATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0038487098     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.10.2.505     Document Type: Article

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