Call for a balanced view on sentinel node biopsy for melanoma

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7894, 2013, Pages

  Geh, Jenny L C ^a   Healy, Ciaran ^a   Lacy, Katie ^a   Wain, Mary ^a   Attard, Natalie ^a   Calonje, Eduardo ^a   Harries, Mark ^a   O'Doherty, Michael ^a   Orlowska, Danuta ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LETTER; LYMPH NODE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MELANOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MELANOMA; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84873670582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f648     Document Type: Letter

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