Cutaneous melanoma: descriptive epidemiological study

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Cutaneous melanoma represents around 3% of all skin tumors. About 20% of such patients will have advanced disease and will die before reaching five years of survival. The aim of this paper was to describe the clinical and histopathological variables and their correlations. DES...

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Main Authors: Nelson Marcos Ferrari Júnior, Helena Muller, Manoel Ribeiro, Marcus Maia, José Antonio Sanches Júnior
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802008000100008&lng=en&tlng=en