The rate of melanoma transection with various biopsy techniques and the influence of tumor transection on patient survival

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 452-458

  Mir, Mohsin ^a   Chan, C Stanley ^a   Khan, Farhan ^a   Krishnan, Bhuvaneswari ^a   Orengo, Ida ^a   Rosen, Theodore ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

malignant melanoma; melanoma transection; saucerization biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXCISION; EXCISIONAL BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUCERIZATION BIOPSY; SKIN SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84873656781     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2012.08.005     Document Type: Article

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