Comparison of secondary intention healing and full-thickness skin graft after excision of acral lentiginous melanoma on foot

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1245-1251

  Jung, Jin Young ^a   Roh, Hyo Jin ^a   Lee, Soo Hyun ^a   Nam, Kyoungae ^a   Chung, Kee Yang ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACRAL LENTIGINOUS MELANOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOOT DISEASE; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; HUTCHINSON'S MELANOTIC FRECKLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 80955179992     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2011.02043.x     Document Type: Article

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