Abdominoperineal resection or local excision? A survival analysis of anorectal malignant melanoma with surgical management

Melanoma Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 338-341

  Zhang, Sen ^a   Gao, Feng ^a   Wan, Desen ^b  

^a GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

anus; melanoma; operation; rectum; survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANORECTAL MALIGNANT MELANOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFE TABLE; LOCAL EXCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ANUS NEOPLASMS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SECONDARY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANUS NEOPLASMS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE;

EID: 77954656801     PISSN: 09608931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CMR.0b013e328339b159     Document Type: Article

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