The impact of factors beyond Breslow depth on predicting sentinel lymph node positivity in melanoma.

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Published in Cancer on January 01, 2007

Authors

Sandra C Paek1, Kent A Griffith, Timothy M Johnson, Vernon K Sondak, Sandra L Wong, Alfred E Chang, Vincent M Cimmino, Lori Lowe, Carol R Bradford, Riley S Rees, Michael S Sabel

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Dermatology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

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