Can high-resolution ultrasound avoid the sentinel lymph-node biopsy procedure in the staging process of patients with stage I-II cutaneous melanoma?

Ultraschall in der Medizin

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Marone, U ^a   Catalano, O ^a   Caraco C ^a   Anniciello, A M ^a   Sandomenico, F ^a   Di Monta, G ^a   Di Cecilia, M L ^a   Mori, S ^a   Botti, G ^a   Petrillo, A ^a   Mozzillo, N ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

lymphatic; skin; soft tissues; tumor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN TUMOR; TUMOR VOLUME;

HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR BURDEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 84871659702     PISSN: 01724614     EISSN: 14388782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1312827     Document Type: Article

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