Surgical specimen handling for conjunctival melanoma: Implications for tumor thickness determination and sentinel lymph node biopsy [5]

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 238-239

  Esmaeli, Bita ^a   De Martelaere, Sheri ^a   Ozkan, Yonca ^a   Prager, Thomas ^a   Prieto, Victor ^a   Diwan, A Hafeez ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER TISSUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONJUCTIVA MELANOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EYELID; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PATHOLOGIST; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MELANOMA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 33745298029     PISSN: 07409303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.iop.0000217704.62929.9b     Document Type: Letter

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