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. 2021 Apr;84(4):1089-1091.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2020.07.078. Epub 2020 Jul 22.

Surgical delay and mortality for primary cutaneous melanoma

Samantha Guhan  1 , Genevieve Boland  2 , Kenneth Tanabe  2 , William Lin  3 , Bobby Reddy  3 , Elena B Hawryluk  3 , Arthur J Sober  3 , Hensin Tsao  4
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Surgical delay and mortality for primary cutaneous melanoma

Samantha Guhan et al. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2021 Apr.
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National Comprehensive Cancer Network and Society of Surgical Oncology's short-term recommendations for cutaneous melanoma management during the COVID-19 pandemic. MIS, melanoma in situ; SLNBx, sentinel lymph node biopsy; WLE, wide local excision.
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