Defining the role of surgery for primary gastrointestinal tract melanoma

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 731-738

  Cheung, Michael C ^a   Perez, Eduardo A ^a   Molina, Manuel A ^a   Jin, Xiaoling ^a   Gutierrez, Juan C ^a   Franceschi, Dido ^a   Livingstone, Alan S ^a   Koniaris, Leonidas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal melanoma; Metastatic melanoma; Outcomes; SEER

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 40849089505     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11605-007-0417-3     Document Type: Article

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