The rotterdam criteria for sentinel node tumor load: The simplest prognostic factor?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 6011-

  Van Akkooi, Alexander C J ^a   De Wilt, Johannes H W ^a   Verhoef, Cornelis ^a   Eggermont, Alexander M M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MICROMETASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TUMOR VOLUME;

HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 58049221258     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.19.5420     Document Type: Letter

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