Surveillance after surgical treatment of melanoma: Futility of routine chest radiography

Surgery

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 711-717

  Brown, Russell E ^a   Stromberg, Arnold J ^b   Hagendoorn, Lee J ^c   Hulsewede, Deborah Y ^a   Ross, Merrick I ^d   Noyes, R Dirk ^e   Goydos, James S ^f   Urist, Marshall M ^g   Edwards, Michael J ^h   Scoggins, Charles R ^a   McMasters, Kelly M ^a   Martin II, Robert C G ^a  

^a Norton Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c Advertek Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^e LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g Kentucky   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SECONDARY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THORAX TUMOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SKIN NEOPLASMS; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956648395     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.07.042     Document Type: Article

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