O ver the past 2 decades, the principal clinical and pathologic fea- tures of melanoma that predict the risk of metastasis and survival rates have been delineated. The dominant independent prognostic factors involving melanoma patients treated throughout the world 1484
Review of the 2001 AJCC staging system for cutaneous malignant melanoma
โ Scribed by Lynn M. Schuchter
- Book ID
- 107546108
- Publisher
- Current Science Inc.
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 248 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1523-3790
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