Clinicopathologic predictors of survival in patients with desmoplastic melanoma

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Han, Dale ^a   Han, Gang ^b   Zhao, Xiuhua ^c   Rao, Nikhil G ^d   Messina, Jane L ^c,e   Marzban, Suroosh S ^c   Sarnaik, Amod A ^c,e   Cruse, C Wayne ^c,e   Sondak, Vernon K ^c,e   Zager, Jonathan S ^c,e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRESLOW THICKNESS; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOPLASTIC MELANOMA; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; MITOSIS RATE; ONCOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR INVASION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84961301370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119716     Document Type: Article

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