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Review
. 2009 Oct;36(5):419-31.
doi: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2009.07.001.

Melanoma in pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients

John M Kirkwood  1 , Drazen M Jukic, Bruce J Averbook, Leonard S Sender
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Review

Melanoma in pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients

John M Kirkwood et al. Semin Oncol. 2009 Oct.

Abstract

The family practitioner, pediatrician, and dermatologist all have potential roles in the primary prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of localized thin melanomas. Surgical and medical oncologists are often involved when controversy arises over the nature of the skin lesion or whether sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsies and adjuvant therapy are to be contemplated. This overview of melanoma will deal with the primary and nodal pathology, surgery, and medical therapy of melanoma in pediatric, adolescent, and young adult patients--and will raise areas of controversy that are only recently being addressed in databases of cases from this age group.

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