Does Wide Excisional Biopsy in Skin Cancer Prevent Finding The Real Sentinel Lymph Node?
Purpose/Aim: The presence of nodal metastasis is an important prognostic factor for malignant melanoma and causes a 50% decrease in survival. Patients found not to have lymph node metastasis as a result of sentinel lymph node biopsy but develop regional lymph node metastasis in the follow-up period...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Journal of Investigative Surgery |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941939.2018.1559898 |