Open AccessTreatment Outcomes of Advanced Stage Malignant Melanoma in Hand and Foot after Amputation in Korean Patients
Author(s) -
Kyu-Jin Cho,
Sung Taek Jung
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
clinics in orthopedic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.002
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2005-4408
pISSN - 2005-291X
DOI - 10.4055/cios.2013.5.4.314
Subject(s) - medicine , amputation , melanoma , stage (stratigraphy) , survival rate , retrospective cohort study , univariate analysis , dissection (medical) , lymph node , surgery , survival analysis , metastasis , cancer , multivariate analysis , paleontology , cancer research , biology
A retrospective study was conducted to review the overall survival and treatment outcomes of high grade melanoma in the extremity to explore the clinical features of malignant melanoma of the hand and foot, and the therapeutic efficacies and survival rate after amputation.