The promise of metastasectomy in melanoma

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 607-609

  Faries, Mark B ^a   Morton, Donald L ^a  

^a JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CRYOSURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; HEPATOMEGALY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER RESECTION; LUNG SARCOMA; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSICIAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES;

HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENT SELECTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 33645895883     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/ASO.2006.01.901     Document Type: Editorial

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