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ASPECTS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT FOR MALIGNANT MELANOMA: THE PLACE OF BIOPSY AND WIDE EXCISION
Author(s) -
Pitt T. T. E.
Publication year - 1977
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.1445-2197.1977.tb06619.x
Subject(s) - medicine , melanoma , surgical excision , malignant disease , biopsy , surgery , general surgery , series (stratigraphy) , radiology , cancer , cancer research , paleontology , biology
Blopsy of melanoma is discussed in respect of the operator, the adequacy of blopsy, and the time delay till wide excislon; statistics are taken from a series of 509 patients with this disease who had their definitive surgery and review at the Peter MacCallum Clinic between 1954 and 1973. Wide excision is described in respect of its origins and its proponents, and discussion draws on appropriate material from the series.