Open AccessFactors influencing locoregional recurrence and distant metastasis in Asian patients with cutaneous melanoma after surgery: A retrospective analysis in a tertiary hospital in Taiwan
Author(s) -
PenYuan Chu,
Yifan Chen,
ChengYuan Li,
Jai Sing Yang,
Yih-An King,
YuJen Chiu,
Hsu Ma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the chinese medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1728-7731
pISSN - 1726-4901
DOI - 10.1097/jcma.0000000000000586
Subject(s) - medicine , lymphovascular invasion , distant metastasis , retrospective cohort study , metastasis , surgical margin , melanoma , oncology , lymph node , surgery , radiology , cancer , cancer research
The goal of this study was to investigate the prognostic factors for locoregional recurrence and metastasis in patients with cutaneous melanoma (CM) who underwent surgery, especially in the acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) subtype.