Correlation Between Prognostic Factors and Increasing Age in Melanoma
- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Springer Nature in Annals of Surgical Oncology
- Vol. 11 (3) , 259-264
Abstract
Background:Age of patients with melanoma varies directly with mortality and inversely with the presence of sentinel lymph node (SLN) metastasis. To gain further insight into this apparent paradox,...Keywords
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