Surgical technique and postoperative morbidity following radical inguinal/iliacal lymph node dissection - A prospective stdy in 67 patients with malignant melanoma metastatic to the groin;Technik und Morbidität der radikalen inguinal/iliakalen Lymphknotendissektion - eine prospektive Untersuchung an 67Patienten mit lymphogen metastasiertem malignen Melanom

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie - Zeitschrift fur Allgemeine, Viszeral- und Gefasschirurgie

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 437-442

  Mall, Julian W ^a   Reetz, C ^a   Koplin, G ^b   Schafer Hesterberg G ^b   Voit, C ^b   Neuss, H ^b  

^a Henriettenstiftung Hannover   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complications; Malignant melanoma; Morbidity; Radical lymph node dissection; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPRESSION GARMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INGUINAL CANAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MALE; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN TUMOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INGUINAL CANAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STOCKINGS, COMPRESSION; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 70350447166     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: 14389592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1224608     Document Type: Article

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