Is ulceration in cutaneous melanoma just a prognostic and predictive factor or is ulcerated melanoma a distinct biologic entity?

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Published in Curr Opin Oncol on March 01, 2012

Authors

Alexander M M Eggermont1, Alan Spatz, Vladimir Lazar, Caroline Robert

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1: Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, Paris, France. alexander.eggermont@igr.fr

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