Full-thickness grafts procured from skin overlying the sentinel lymph node basin; reconstruction of primary cutaneous malignancy excision defects

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1733-1740

  Lewis, James M ^a,b   Zager, Jonathan S ^a,b   Yu, Daohai ^a,b   Pelaez, Diego ^b   Riker, Adam I ^c   Dessureault, Sophie ^a,b   Cruse, C Wayne ^b   Reintgen, Douglas S ^d   Puleo, Christopher A ^b   Sondak, Vernon K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

^d Lakeland Regional Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Merkel cell carcinoma; Sentinel lymph node biopsy; Skin graft

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN GRAFT; SURGEON;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 43449101181     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-9887-0     Document Type: Article

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