Tumour necrosis is a valuable histopathological prognostic parameter in melanomas of the vulva and vagina
Roy S, Baig J, DeCoste R, Finch S, Sennik S, Kakadekar A, Sade S, Micevic G, Chergui M, Rahimi K, Flaman A, Trinh V, Osmond A. Tumour necrosis is a valuable histopathological prognostic parameter in melanomas of the vulva and vagina. Pathology 2024, 56: 854-864. PMID: 38906758, DOI: 10.1016/j.pathol.2024.03.008.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTumor necrosisVaginal melanomaPrognostic factorsDisease-specific mortalitySurvival outcomesKaplan-Meier log-rankAssociated with disease-specific mortalityKaplan-Meier survival analysisPositive lymph nodesHistopathological prognostic parametersMedian follow-upMetastasis-free survivalNon-metastatic patientsMultivariate Cox regressionTime to metastasisFollow-up dataTertiary Canadian hospitalProgression-freeTumor ulcerationMelanoma patientsPrognostic parametersLymph nodesAggressive malignancyImmunohistochemical markersLog-rank