Cloquet's node trumps imaging modalities in the prediction of pelvic nodal involvement in patients with lower limb melanomas in Asian patients with palpable groin nodes

European Journal of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1263-1270

  Koh, Y X ^a   Chok, A Y ^a   Zheng, H ^b   Xu, S ^a   Teo, Melissa C C ^a  

^a DIVISION OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cloquet's node; Iliac obturator dissection; Inguino femoral dissection; Melanoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOQUET NODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FROZEN SECTION; GROIN NODAL DISSECTION; HUMAN; ILIAC OBTURATOR DISSECTION; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LEG DISEASE; LOWER LIMB MELANOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FACTUAL DATABASE; INGUINAL CANAL; INGUINAL REGION; LEG; LYMPH NODE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PELVIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; SKIN TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GROIN; HUMANS; INGUINAL CANAL; LOWER EXTREMITY; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84925225853     PISSN: 07487983     EISSN: 15322157     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejso.2014.05.008     Document Type: Article

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