Positive sentinel lymph node biopsy predicts local metastases during the course of disease in Merkel cell carcinoma

Journal of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 139-143

  Kouzmina, Maria ^a   Leikola, Junnu ^a   Böhling, Tom ^b   Koljonen, Virve ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Merkel cell carcinoma; Metastases; Mortality; Sentinel lymph node biopsy; Survival; Tumour size

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN TUMOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84875396057     PISSN: 2000656X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/2000656X.2012.736386     Document Type: Article

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