Contemporary Surgical Treatment of Advanced-Stage Melanoma
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Contemporary surgical treatment of advanced-stage melanoma.
HYPOTHESIS The clinical treatment of patients with stage IV melanoma according to criteria of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) is controversial because the 5-year survival rate is approximately 5%. Specific clinicopathologic factors are predictive of survival following curative surgery. DESIGN Cohort analysis of 1574 successive patients undergoing surgical resection of metastatic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Surgery
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0004-0010
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.139.9.961