Cutaneous melanoma: descriptive epidemiological study
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Cutaneous melanoma: descriptive epidemiological study.
CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Cutaneous melanoma represents around 3% of all skin tumors. About 20% of such patients will have advanced disease and will die before reaching five years of survival. The aim of this paper was to describe the clinical and histopathological variables and their correlations. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective, descriptive, epidemiological study at the Melanoma Unit, Dermatol...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sao Paulo Medical Journal
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1516-3180
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-31802008000100008