Cutaneous melanoma: Preoperative tumor diameter in a general dermatology outpatient setting

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 446-454

  Maley, Alexander ^a   Rhodes, Arthur R ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DERMATOLOGIST; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR DIAMETER; TUMOR INVASION; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; DERMATOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898003254     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dsu.12454     Document Type: Article

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