Surgical resection for melanoma metastatic to the gastrointestinal tract;Traitement chirurgical des métastases digestives de mélanome

Annales de Chirurgie

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 278-281

  Dequanter, D ^a,b   Sales, F ^a   Legendre, H ^a   Lothaire, P ^a   Pector, J C ^a  

^a JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chirurgie; Gastrointestinal metastases; M lanome; M tastases digestives; Melanoma; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MELANOMA; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SMALL INTESTINE CARCINOMA; STOMACH CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEMIA; COLECTOMY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION; JAUNDICE, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042684630     PISSN: 00033944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anchir.2004.01.016     Document Type: Article

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