Acral melanoma in Chinese: A clinicopathological and prognostic study of 142 cases

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lv, Jiaojie ^a,b   Dai, Bo ^a,b   Kong, Yunyi ^a,b   Shen, Xuxia ^a,b   Kong, Jincheng ^c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84983346281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep31432     Document Type: Article

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