Clinicopathologic features and prognostic factors in patients with non-cutaneous malignant melanoma: A single-center retrospective study of 71 cases

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1390-1395

  Zhu, Hong ^a   Dong, Dandan ^a   Li, Fanghua ^a   Liu, Dandan ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Fu, Jing ^a   Song, Linhong ^a   Xu, Gang ^a  

^a SICHUAN PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANUS; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOROID; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOSAL MALIGNANT MELANOMA; NON CUTANEOUS MALIGNANT MELANOMA; OCULAR MALIGNANT MELANOMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR FREE SURVIVAL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; AGE; CHOROID TUMOR; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; MOUTH TUMOR; MUCOSA; NOSE TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECTUM TUMOR; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NOSE NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR BURDEN; UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84947491581     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ijd.12745     Document Type: Article

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