Surgical excision margins for primary cutaneous melanoma
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Surgical excision margins for primary cutaneous melanoma.
BACKGROUND Cutaneous melanoma accounts for 75% of skin cancer deaths. Standard treatment is surgical excision with a safety margin some distance from the borders of the primary tumour. The purpose of the safety margin is to remove both the complete primary tumour and any melanoma cells that might have spread into the surrounding skin.Excision margins are important because there could be trade-o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd004835.pub2