## Background: Recently, the pigmented lesion group at the university of pennsylvania described a 4-variable model for predicting 10-year survival for patients with primary cutaneous melanoma. the variables are tumor thickness, anatomic site of the lesion, age, and gender. the objective of the curr
Bans: A cutaneous region with no prognostic significance in patients with melanoma
โ Scribed by Natale Cascinelli; Maurizio Vaglini; Rosaria Bufalino; Alberto Morabito
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 322 KB
- Volume
- 57
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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