Sentinel lymph node metastasis is not predictive of poor outcome in patients with problematic spitzoid melanocytic tumors

Human Pathology

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 87-94

  Hung, Tawny ^a   Piris, Adriano ^b   Lobo, Alice ^c   Mihm Jr , Martin C ^d   Sober, Arthur J ^b   Tsao, Hensin ^b   Tanabe, Kenneth K ^b   Duncan, Lyn M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atypical Spitz tumor; Melanoma; Sentinel lymph node; Spitz nevus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JUVENILE MELANOMA; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; SPITZOID MELANOCYTIC TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870704901     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: 15328392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2012.04.019     Document Type: Article

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