Melanoma adrenal metastasis: natural history and surgical management

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 195, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 363-369

  Mittendorf, Elizabeth A ^a   Lim, Sherry J ^a   Schacherer, Chris W ^a   Lucci, Anthony ^a   Cormier, Janice N ^a   Mansfield, Paul F ^a   Gershenwald, Jeffrey E ^a   Ross, Merrick I ^a   Lee, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal metastasis; Adrenalectomy; Metastatic melanoma

Indexed keywords

LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADRENAL METASTASIS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; ADRENAL TUMOR; DISEASE COURSE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TUMOR; SURVIVAL;

ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 40749106178     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2007.12.018     Document Type: Article

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