Advanced malignant melanoma during pregnancy: technical description of sentinel lymph node biopsy followed by radical lymph node dissection
Abstract Introduction: melanoma is a very aggressive cancer, with increasing incidence, and is currently the fifth most common cancer in men and the sixth most common in women in the United States. Melanoma is not unusual in pregnancy, with an estimated occur-rence rate of 1:1.000. Although not th...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco
2015-12-01
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Series: | Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-38292015000400447&lng=en&tlng=en |