Stage III thick (>4.0 mm) lower extremity melanoma: Is timing of lymph node involvement a prognostic factor?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 469-474

  Herman, Krzysztof ^a   Wysocki, Wojciech M ^a   Skotnicki, Piotr ^a   Tabor, Jacek ^a   Łuczyńska, Elebieta ^a   Komorowski, Andrzej L ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Hospital Juan Grande   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; ULCER; ADOLESCENT; AGED; LEG; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; SECONDARY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LOWER EXTREMITY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60449089415     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9895-z     Document Type: Article

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