Prognostic Factors in Patients Undergoing Lymphadenectomy of Malignant Melanoma
COHEN A, KETCHAM A, FELIX E, LI S, tOMASZEWSKI M, COSTA J, RABSON A, SIMON R, ROSENBERG S. Prognostic Factors in Patients Undergoing Lymphadenectomy of Malignant Melanoma. Annals Of Surgery 1977, 186: 635-642. PMID: 921357, PMCID: PMC1396308, DOI: 10.1097/00000658-197711000-00016.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNode dissectionLevel of invasionSite of melanomaPositive nodesLymph nodesPrognostic factorsExtremity melanomaMelanoma patientsPrognostic discriminationPreoperative assessmentSame pathologistMalignant melanomaMelanoma thicknessPatientsMelanomaYears' experienceDissectionSurvivalImportant factorInvasionMultivariate evaluationAspatientsFourpatientsPrognosticfactorsThesurgeon