Extensive screening for primary tumor is redundant in melanoma of unknown primary

Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 724-727

  Tos, Tina ^a   Klyver, Helle ^a   Drzewiecki, Krzysztof T ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

malignant melanoma; metastatic melanoma; unknown primary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENDOSCOPY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; HUMAN; LARYNGOSCOPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MELANOMA; MELANOMA OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY; METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; OTOSCOPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTOSCOPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHINOPHARYGOSCOPY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SKIN METASTASIS; SUBCUTANEOUS METASTASIS; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80255132732     PISSN: 00224790     EISSN: 10969098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jso.21994     Document Type: Article

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