Mohs versus traditional surgical excision for facial and auricular nonmelanoma skin cancer: An analysis of cost-effectiveness

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1776-1787

  Seidler, Anne M ^a   Bramlette, Tracy B ^a   Washington, Carl V ^a   Szeto, Herb ^b   Chen, Suephy C ^a,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Kaiser Permanente Redwood City ^*  (United States)

^c ATLANTA VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMOSURGERY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EAR CANCER; FACE CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONMELANOMA SKIN CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EAR NEOPLASMS; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOHS SURGERY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 72349098586     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01291.x     Document Type: Article

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