Confirmatory trial of non-amputative digit preservation surgery for subungual melanoma: Japan Clinical Oncology Group study (JCOG1602, J-NAIL study protocol)

Abstract Background Amputation is the standard of care even for early-stage subungual melanomas (SUMs), known as nail apparatus melanoma, because the nail bed and nail matrix are close to the distal phalanx. However, a recent study demonstrated that not all patients with SUMs had histologic invasion...

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Main Authors: Kiyo Tanaka, Yasuhiro Nakamura, Tomonori Mizutani, Taro Shibata, Arata Tsutsumida, Haruhiko Fukuda, Shigeto Matsushita, Megumi Aoki, Kenjiro Namikawa, Shuichi Ohe, Satoshi Fukushima, Naoya Yamazaki, on behalf of the Dermatologic Oncology Group of the Japan Clinical Oncology Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-019-6248-2