Prospective assessment of postoperative complications and associated costs following Inguinal Lymph Node Dissection (ILND) in Melanoma patients

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2764-2772

  Chang, Sharon B ^a   Askew, Robert L ^a   Xing, Yan ^a   Weaver, Storm ^a   Gershenwald, Jeffrey E ^a   Lee, Jeffrey E ^a   Royal, Richard ^a   Lucci, Anthony ^a   Ross, Merrick I ^a   Cormier, Janice N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEROMA; SMOKING; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INGUINAL CANAL; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78049474166     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-010-1026-z     Document Type: Article

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