The role of ultrasound of sentinel nodes in the pre- and post-operative evaluation of stage I melanoma patients.

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Published in Melanoma Res on June 01, 2005

Authors

Alessandro Testori1, Gianluca Lazzaro, Federica Baldini, Giulio Tosti, Massimo Mosconi, Elena Lovati, Chiara Bossi, Stefania Sanvito, Ignazio Stanganelli, Giovanni Mazzarol, Gian Luca De Salvo, Giuseppe Trifirò, Roberto Biffi, Massimo Bellomi

Author Affiliations

1: Melanoma Unit, European Institute of Oncology, Skin Cancer Unit, Center for Cancer Prevention, Milan, Italy. alessandro.testori@ieo.it

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