Surgical margins for lentigo maligna and lentigo maligna melanoma: The technique of mapped serial excision

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 140, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1087-1092

  Huilgol, Shyamala C ^a,d   Selva, Dinesh ^a   Chen, Celia ^a   Hill, Dudley C ^a,d   James, Craig L ^b   Gramp, Amanda ^c   Malhotra, Raman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Adelaide Pathology Partners   (Australia)

^c Gramp Skin Pathology   (Australia)

^d Wakefield Clinic   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRESLOW THICKNESS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LENTIGO MALIGNA MELANOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MAPPED SERIAL EXCISION; MARGIN CONTROLLED EXCISION; MELANOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN SURGERY; SURGICAL MARGIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HUTCHINSON'S MELANOTIC FRECKLE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOHS SURGERY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4544240109     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.140.9.1087     Document Type: Article

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