Age as a predictor of sentinel node metastasis among patients with localized melanoma: An inverse correlation of melanoma mortality and incidence of sentinel node metastasis among young and old patients

PURPOSE: We have previously reported that older patients with clinical Stage I and II primary cutaneous. melanoma had lower survival rates compared to younger patients We postulated that the incidence of nodal metastasis would therefore be higher among older melanoma patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS:...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Balch, Charles M., Soong, Seng-jaw, Thompson, John F., Gershenwald, Jeffrey E., Ding, Shouluan, McMasters, Kelly M., Coit, Daniel G., Eggermont, Alexander M.M., Gimotty, Phyllis A., Johnson, Timothy, Kirkwood, John M., Leong, Stanley P., Ross, Merrick I., Byrd, David R., Cochran, Alistair J., Mihm, Martin C., Morton, Donald L., Atkins, Michael B., Flaherty, Keith T., Sondak, Vernon K.
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: 2014
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4121329/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24531700
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1245/s10434-013-3464-x
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