Merkel cell carcinoma: Does tumor size or depth of invasion correlate with recurrence, metastasis, or patient survival?

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 791-795

  Sandel IV, Henry D ^a   Day, Terry ^b   Richardson, Mary S ^b   Scarlett, Matthew ^b   Gutman, Katharine A ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c MEDSTAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth of invasion; Margins; Merkel cell carcinoma; Survival; Trabecular cell carcinoma; Treatment; Tumor size

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MEDICAL RECORD; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; CANCER STAGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TUMOR; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745288286     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000208615.93883.b2     Document Type: Article

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