Melanoma in children: Heightened awareness of an uncommon but often curable malignancy

Pediatrics

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 802-803

  Lange, Julie R ^a,b   Balch, Charles M ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON;

AWARENESS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MELANOMA; NOTE; OBSERVATION; PEDIATRICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SKIN BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; SKIN TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20344399176     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 00314005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2004-2770     Document Type: Note

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