Margin involvement after the excision of melanoma in situ: The need for complete en face examination of the surgical margins

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1434-1441

  Kimyai Asadi, Arash ^a   Katz, Tracy ^a   Goldberg, Leonard H ^a   Ayala, Gabriel B ^a   Wang, Steven Q ^a   Vujevich, Justin J ^a   Jih, Ming H ^a  

^a DERMSURGERY ASSOCIATES   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMOSURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; FROZEN SECTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; NOTE; TUMOR VOLUME;

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EID: 36749069931     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2007.33313.x     Document Type: Article

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