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Malignant melanoma of childhood. A clinicopathologic study and a report of 12 cases
Author(s) -
Lerman Robert I.,
Murray Douglas,
O'Hara James M.,
Booher Robert J.,
Foote Frank W.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197002)25:2<436::aid-cncr2820250223>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , dissection (medical) , lymph node , disease , metastatic melanoma , general surgery , surgery , pathology , cancer research
Twelve cases of malignant melanoma of childhood were collected from the pathology files of Memorial and James Ewing Hospitals covering a 40‐year period from 1928 to 1968. All of these cases had documented evidence of metastatic disease; 4 have survived longer than 5 years, and 2 of these are alive and well more than 15 years after therapeutic regional lymph node dissection. Clinical and pathologic findings in these cases are summarized, and a brief historical review is included.