Long-term survival and occasional regression of distant melanoma metastases after adrenal metastasectomy

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1741-1749

  Collinson, F J ^a,b   Lam, T K ^a   Bruijn, W M J ^a   De Wilt, J H W ^a   Lamont, M ^a,b   Thompson, J F ^a,c   Kefford, R F ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Melanoma; Metastasis; Surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL METASTASECTOMY; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT DURATION; VISCERAL METASTASIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADRENALECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 43449100660     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-9836-y     Document Type: Article

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