Major amputation for irresectable extremity melanoma after failure of isolated limb infusion

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1543-1547

  Kroon, Hidde M ^a   Lin, D Yin ^a   Kam, Peter C A ^a   Thompson, John F ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DACTINOMYCIN; MELPHALAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; ISOLATED LIMB INFUSION; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB AMPUTATION; MALE; MELANOMA; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSTHESIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR GROWTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; CHEMOTHERAPY, CANCER, REGIONAL PERFUSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 67349197818     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-009-0394-8     Document Type: Article

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