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Survival after Regional Perfusion for Limb Melanoma
Author(s) -
Cox Kenneth R.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1975.tb05719.x
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , perfusion , disease , lower limb , surgery , cancer research
Regional perfusion has been carried out in the limbs of a group of patients with recurrent melanoma, and has achieved disappearance of visible disease in the affected limb in JO patients out of 28 (36%), prevention of local recurrence in five, and no effect on the disease in nine. This control of recurrent melanoma cost no mortality, but did carry a definite but acceptable morbidity