Cutaneous Melanoma: Role of Ultrasound in the Assessment of Locoregional Spread

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-36

  Catalano, Orlando ^a   Siani, Alfredo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B SCAN; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IN-TRANSIT METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MELANOMA; MICROMETASTASIS; REVIEW; SATELLITE METASTASIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 70449469148     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpradiol.2009.04.001     Document Type: Review

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