Patients with clinically node negative extremity Merkel cell carcinoma: The importance of identifying and treating patients with microscopic nodal metastases

Australasian Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 274-278

  Veness, Michael ^a   Howle, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Merkel cell carcinoma; radiotherapy; sentinel node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOWER EXTREMITY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECURRENCE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UPPER EXTREMITY; X-RAY THERAPY;

EID: 78649263321     PISSN: 00048380     EISSN: 14400960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-0960.2010.00702.x     Document Type: Review

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