Parameters predicting prognosis in melanoma sentinel nodes

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 3588-3590

  Satzger, Imke ^a   Meier, Andre ^a   Alter, Mareike ^a   Kapp, Alexander ^a   Gutzmer, Ralf ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IPILIMUMAB;

CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHATIC PARAMETERS; MELANOMA; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; SIMULATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80052975408     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2011.37.1112     Document Type: Letter

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