Problems in defining melanoma regression and prognostic implication;Regresión en el melanoma: Problemas en su definición e implicación pronóstica

Actas Dermo-Sifiliograficas

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 759-766

  Requena, C ^a   Botella Estrada, R ^a   Traves, V ^a   Nagore, E ^a   Almenar, S ^a   Guillen C ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Metastasis; Prognosis; Regression; Sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

CANCER REGRESSION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 70849086491     PISSN: 00017310     EISSN: 15782190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-7310(09)72549-9     Document Type: Article

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