Minimum Safe Pathologic Excision Margins for Primary Cutaneous Melanomas (1–2 mm in Thickness): Analysis of 2131 Patients Treated at a Single Center

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1071-1081

  Haydu, Lauren E ^a,b   Stollman, Joram T ^a   Scolyer, Richard A ^a,b,c   Spillane, Andrew J ^a,b   Quinn, Michael J ^a,b   Saw, Robyn P M ^a,b   Shannon, Kerwin F ^a,b   Stretch, Jonathan R ^a,b   Bonenkamp, Johannes J ^d   Thompson, John F ^a,b  

^a MELANOMA INSTITUTE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CUTANEOUS MELANOMA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR INVASION; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84929103835     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-015-4575-3     Document Type: Article

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