The "spaghetti technique": An alternative to Mohs surgery or staged surgery for problematic lentiginous melanoma (lentigo maligna and acral lentiginous melanoma)

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-118

  Gaudy Marqueste, Caroline ^a   Perchenet, Anne Sophie ^b   Taséi, Anne Marie ^c   Madjlessi, Nika ^a   Magalon, Guy ^b   Richard, Marie Aleth ^a   Grob, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a Service de Dermatologie   (France)

^b HÔPITAL DE LA CONCEPTION   (France)

^c TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

lentiginous melanomas; margins assessment; surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CHEMOSURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAGHETTI TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HUTCHINSON'S MELANOTIC FRECKLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANOMA; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; MOHS SURGERY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650319593     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2010.03.014     Document Type: Article

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