Natural history of melanoma in 773 patients with tumor-negative sentinel lymph nodes

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1604-1611

  Zogakis, Theresa G ^a   Essner, Richard ^a   Wang, He Jing ^a   Foshag, Leland J ^a   Morton, Donald L ^a  

^a JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Prognosis; Recurrence; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN ULCER; TRUNK; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL HISTORY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34249036152     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-006-9267-6     Document Type: Article

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