A systematic review of prognosis and therapy of anal malignant melanoma: A plea for more precise reporting of location and thickness

American Surgeon

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-35

  Kanaan, Ziad ^a   Mulhall, Aaron ^a   Mahid, Suhal ^a   Torres, Marla L ^a   McCafferty, Michael ^a   McMasters, Kelly M ^a   Hornung, Carlton ^a   Galandiuk, Susan ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ANUS CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY TUMOR; RARE DISEASE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECURRENT CANCER; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; WIDE EXCISION;

ANUS NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84857079697     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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