Although pathologic nodal status is a major determinant of outcome in melanoma, there is
substantial prognostic heterogeneity among node-positive patients. This study was …

Twelve prognostic features of melanoma were examined in a series of 185 patients with
nodal metastases (Stage II), who underwent surgical treatment at our institution during the …

Review of a 19 year experience in melanoma patients undergoinglymphadenectomy at the
National Cancer Institute revealedthat the preoperative assessment of the status of …

A review of 1134 patients from the John Wayne Cancer Clinic with melanoma metastatic to
regional lymph nodes was carried out to evaluate the importance of various prognostic …

We evaluated the importance of 14 clinical and pathologic variables as determinants of
prognosis in patients with malignant melanoma and positive regional lymph nodes at …

To establish clinical and histologic determinants of survival, records of all UCLA patients
with resectable melanoma metastatic to the lymph nodes during the years 1954-1976 were …

Objective To examine the long-term outcomes of patients with melanoma metastatic to
regional lymph nodes. Summary Background Data Regional lymph node metastasis is a …

• The impact of nodal tumor burden on patterns of relapse and survival was retrospectively
analyzed in 1001 patients with stage III melanoma. The incidence of tumor recurrence within …

• Retrospective review of 199 patients with malignant melanoma who had regional node
dissection showed that the median survival rates of patients with histologically negative …

• Patterns of recurrence and outcome were determined in 403 patients with melanoma who
underwent an axillary or inguinal lymphadenectomy. Recurrences developed at single sites …