Thirty-one children and adolescents with malignant melanoma were treated at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute between 1945 and 1977. Locations of primary lesions included head-neck 14, trunk nine, and extremity eight. Twenty-five patients had clinically localized tumor at diagnosis, fo
Fatal Malignant Melanoma in an Adolescent
โ Scribed by RAMONA SARSAMA NIXON; DAVID GEISS; SHANNON CAMPBELL
- Book ID
- 109091016
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 233 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0736-8046
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