Staging, Workup, and Surveillance

Nov 21, 2018 by in RHEUMATOLOGY Comments Off on Staging, Workup, and Surveillance

4 Staging, Workup, and Surveillance Jocelyn Depathy and Stephan Ariyan     Epidemiologic studies of malignant melanoma have shown a steady rise in the incidence of this disease in various…

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Special Sites

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6 Special Sites Sarah Persing and Deepak Narayan     INTRODUCTION Melanocytes are derived from the neural crest and are widely distributed throughout cutaneous and various mucosal sites. Although melanomas…

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Lymph Node Dissection

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8 Lymph Node Dissection Daniel C. Thomas and Dale Han     INDICATIONS Lymphadenectomy is indicated for the treatment of macroscopic or microscopic melanoma metastatic to associated nodal basin draining…

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