Lymphatic drainage to the popliteal basin in distal lower extremity malignant melanoma

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1002-1006

  Menes, Tehillah S ^a   Schachter, Jacob ^a   Steinmetz, Adam P ^a   Hardoff, Ruth ^a   Gutman, Haim ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLUE DYE; DYE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LEG; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; MELANOMA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPLITEAL AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 4444285941     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.9.1002     Document Type: Article

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