Clinico-pathologic features of primary melanoma and sentinel lymph node predictive for non-sentinel lymph node involvement and overall survival in melanoma patients: A single centre observational cohort study

Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 259-264

  Quaglino, P ^a   Ribero, S ^c   Osella Abate, S ^a   MacR, L ^b   Grassi, M ^c   Caliendo, V ^c   Asioli, S ^b   Sapino, A ^b   MacRip, G ^c   Savoia, P ^a   Bernengo, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c Division of Clinical Nutrition   (Italy)

Author keywords

Melanoma; Non sentinel lymph nodes; Overall survival

Indexed keywords

BRESLOW THICKNESS; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPLETION LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEAD CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MICROMETASTASIS; MORBIDITY; NECK CANCER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTION; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 80053641252     PISSN: 09607404     EISSN: 18793320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suronc.2010.11.001     Document Type: Review

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