Clinical guidelines for the recognition of melanoma of the foot and nail unit

Malignant melanoma is a life threatening skin tumour which may arise on the foot. The prognosis for the condition is good when lesions are diagnosed and treated early. However, lesions arising on the soles and within the nail unit can be difficult to recognise leading to delays in diagnosis. These g...

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Autores principales: Bristow, Ivan R, de Berker, David AR, Acland, Katharine M, Turner, Richard J, Bowling, Jonathan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2987777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21040565
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-3-25
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author Bristow, Ivan R
de Berker, David AR
Acland, Katharine M
Turner, Richard J
Bowling, Jonathan
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description Malignant melanoma is a life threatening skin tumour which may arise on the foot. The prognosis for the condition is good when lesions are diagnosed and treated early. However, lesions arising on the soles and within the nail unit can be difficult to recognise leading to delays in diagnosis. These guidelines have been drafted to alert health care practitioners to the early signs of the disease so an early diagnosis can be sought.
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spelling pubmed-29877772010-11-19 Clinical guidelines for the recognition of melanoma of the foot and nail unit Bristow, Ivan R de Berker, David AR Acland, Katharine M Turner, Richard J Bowling, Jonathan J Foot Ankle Res Review Malignant melanoma is a life threatening skin tumour which may arise on the foot. The prognosis for the condition is good when lesions are diagnosed and treated early. However, lesions arising on the soles and within the nail unit can be difficult to recognise leading to delays in diagnosis. These guidelines have been drafted to alert health care practitioners to the early signs of the disease so an early diagnosis can be sought. BioMed Central 2010-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2987777/ /pubmed/21040565 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1146-3-25 Text en Copyright ©2010 Bristow et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Clinical guidelines for the recognition of melanoma of the foot and nail unit
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