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Quantitative Measurement of Melanoma Spread in Sentinel Lymph Nodes and Survival

BACKGROUND: Sentinel lymph node spread is a crucial factor in melanoma outcome. We aimed to define the impact of minimal cancer spread and of increasing numbers of disseminated cancer cells on melanoma-specific survival. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We analyzed 1,834 sentinel nodes from 1,027 patients with...

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Autores principales: Ulmer, Anja, Dietz, Klaus, Hodak, Isabelle, Polzer, Bernhard, Scheitler, Sebastian, Yildiz, Murat, Czyz, Zbigniew, Lehnert, Petra, Fehm, Tanja, Hafner, Christian, Schanz, Stefan, Röcken, Martin, Garbe, Claus, Breuninger, Helmut, Fierlbeck, Gerhard, Klein, Christoph A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3928050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24558354
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001604