Significance of multiple lymphatic basin drainage in truncal melanoma patients undergoing sentinel lymph node biopsy

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1216-1223

  McHugh, Jonathan B ^a   Su, Lyndon ^a,b   Griffith, Kent A ^c   Schwartz, Jennifer L ^b   Wong, Sandra L ^a   Cimmino, Vincent ^a   Chang, Alfred E ^a   Johnson, Timothy M ^a,b,c   Sabel, Michael S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymphoscintigraphy; Melanoma; Multiple basins; Sentinel lymph node biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA BASE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ULCER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THORAX;

EID: 33748970291     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-006-9014-z     Document Type: Article

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