Diagnosis and treatment of interval sentinel lymph nodes in patients with cutaneous melanoma

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 907-913

  Carling, Tobias ^a   Pan, Deborah ^a   Ariyan, Stephan ^a   Narayan, Deepak ^a   Truini, Carolyn ^a  

^a YALE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33847191446     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000240825.63124.0c     Document Type: Article

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