Prognostic implication of sentinel lymph node biopsy in cutaneous head and neck melanoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1686-1692

  Saltman, Benjamin E ^a   Ganly, Ian ^b   Patel, Snehal G ^b   Coit, Daniel G ^b   Brady, Mary Sue ^b   Wong, Richard J ^b   Boyle, Jay O ^b   Singh, Bhuvanesh ^b   Shaha, Ashok R ^b   Shah, Jatin P ^b   Kraus, Dennis H ^b  

^a LONG ISLAND JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

head and neck; head and neck melanoma; head and neck surgery; melanoma; sentinel lymph node

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649647326     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21390     Document Type: Article

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