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. 2004 Apr;17(2):99-103.
doi: 10.1080/08998280.2004.11927962.

Sentinel lymph node biopsies in cancers of the skin, colon, head and neck, and breast

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Sentinel lymph node biopsies in cancers of the skin, colon, head and neck, and breast

Bridget M Nelson. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2004 Apr.
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Overall survival of patients with malignant melanoma according to sentinel lymph node pathology results. Data from Fincher T, Kuhn JA, Fisher TL, O'Brien JC, Preskitt JT, Lieberman ZH, Stephens JS, McCarty TM. Patterns of recurrence following sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma. Presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Surgical Congress, April 27–30, 2003, Tucson, Arizona. Circles indicate censored data points.

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