Diameter of involved nerves predicts outcomes in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma with perineural invasion: An investigator-blinded retrospective cohort study

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1859-1866

  Ross, Amy S ^a   Miller Whalen, Faith ^b   Elenitsas, Rosalie ^c   Xu, Xiaowei ^d   Troxel, Andrea B ^e   Schmults, Chrysalyne D ^f  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Division of Dermatopathology

^d Department of Pathology ^*

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f Brigham and Women's/Faulkner Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CUTANEOUS SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72349093003     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01354.x     Document Type: Article

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