Long-term survival in stage IV melanoma after repetitive surgical therapy

Onkologie

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 259-261

  Tomov, Tsvetomir ^a   Siegel, Robert ^a   Bembenek, Andreas ^a  

^a Section of Pathology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Melanoma metastases; Melanoma, stage IV: surgical therapy, long term survival; Metastases resection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LONG TERM CARE; MELANOMA; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASMS, CONNECTIVE TISSUE; REOPERATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44349168232     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000121409     Document Type: Article

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