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Increasing Age Is Associated with Worse Prognostic Factors and Increased Distant Recurrences despite Fewer Sentinel Lymph Node Positives in Melanoma

Background. Advanced age is associated with a poorer prognosis in patients with melanoma. Despite this established finding, a decreased incidence of positive sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) with advancing age has paradoxically been described. Methods. Using a single-institution database of melanoma pati...

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Autores principales: Page, A. J., Li, A., Hestley, A., Murray, D., Carlson, G. W., Delman, K. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3317190/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22523678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/456987

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