VALUE OF REGIONAL LYMPHADENECTOMY FOR THE PROGNOSIS OF ADVANCED MALIGNANT-MELANOMA WITH LIMB PERFUSION

Authors
HUBER R KRUGER I STUTZER H
Citation
R. Huber et al., VALUE OF REGIONAL LYMPHADENECTOMY FOR THE PROGNOSIS OF ADVANCED MALIGNANT-MELANOMA WITH LIMB PERFUSION, Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie, 1996, pp. 118-121
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Langenbecks Archiv fur Chirurgie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00238236
Year of publication
1996
Supplement
2
Pages
118 - 121
Database
ISI
SICI code
0023-8236(1996):<118:VORLFT>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Staging by means of preoperative clinical screening will always stage melanoma study patients too favourably. Only a postoperative histopath ological staging by means of lymphadenectomy will allow a correct stag e-correlated patient prognosis. Lymphadenectomy does not prolonge over all survival (95% confident intervals +/- 6.6% to +/- 25%) however pro longs recurrence free survival.