Surgery and adjuvant therapies in the treatment of stage IV melanoma: Our experience in 84 patients

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 394, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1079-1084

  Tauceri, Francesca ^a,c   Mura, Gianni ^b   Roseano, Mauro ^a   Framarini, Massimo ^b   Ridolfi, Laura ^b   Verdecchia, Giorgio M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^b MORGAGNI PIERANTONI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adjuvant therapy; Metastatic melanoma; Surgical resection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350324779     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-008-0312-8     Document Type: Article

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