The role of abdominoperineal resection as surgical therapy for anorectal melanoma

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 244, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1012-1017

  Yeh, Jen Jen ^a   Shia, Jinru ^a   Hwu, Wen Jen ^a   Busam, Klaus J ^a   Paty, Philip B ^a   Guillem, Jose G ^a   Coit, Daniel G ^a   Wong, W Douglas ^a   Weiser, Martin R ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL MELANOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXCISION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PERITONEUM; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751335627     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000225114.56565.f9     Document Type: Article

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