Accuracy of lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsy after previous wide local excision in patients with primary melanoma

Cancer

Volumn 107, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2647-2652

  Gannon, Christopher J ^a   Rousseau Jr , Dennis L ^a,b   Ross, Merrick I ^a   Johnson, Marcella M ^a   Lee, Jeffrey E ^a   Mansfield, Paul F ^a   Cormier, Janice N ^a   Prieto, Victor G ^a   Gershenwald, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Lymphatic mapping; Melanoma; Rotational flap; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA BASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SKIN FLAP; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33751572328     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22320     Document Type: Article

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