Reliability and cost-effectiveness of sentinel lymph node excision under local anaesthesia versus general anaesthesia for malignant melanoma: A retrospective analysis in 300 patients with malignant melanoma AJCC Stages i and II

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 306-310

  Stoffels, I ^a   Dissemond, J ^a   Korber A ^a   Hillen, U ^a   Poeppel, T ^a   Schadendorf, D ^a   Klode, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

cost analysis; local anaesthesia; melanoma; sentinel lymph node biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; LIDOCAINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SEROMA; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; CHILD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79751513337     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2010.03786.x     Document Type: Article

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