Metastatic melanoma to lymph nodes in patients with unknown primary sites.

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Published in Cancer on May 01, 2006

Authors

Janice N Cormier1, Yan Xing, Lei Feng, Xuelin Huang, Latunya Davidson, Jeffrey E Gershenwald, Jeffrey E Lee, Paul F Mansfield, Merrick I Ross

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. jcormier@mdanderson.org

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