Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Ocular Adnexal Melanoma: Experience in 30 Patients

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2217-2223

  Savar, Aaron ^a   Ross, Merrick I ^a   Prieto, Victor G ^a,b   Ivan, Doina ^a,b   Kim, Stella ^a   Esmaeli, Bita ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID TUMOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; THICKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; EYELID NEOPLASMS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350567745     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.04.012     Document Type: Article

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