The amount of metastatic melanoma in a sentinel lymph node: Does it have prognostic significance?

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 575-581

  Carlson, Grant W ^a,c   Murray, Douglas R ^a   Lyles, Robert H ^b   Staley, Charles A ^a   Hestley, Andrea ^a   Cohen, Cynthia ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Metastatic disease; Prognosis; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; MELANOMA CELL; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0041784818     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2003.03.054     Document Type: Review

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