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Local Melanoma Recurrence
- Source :
- Dermatologic Surgery. 30:1533-1538
- Publication Year :
- 2004
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2004.
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Abstract
- Background. The current medical literature contains multiple different meanings for the term “local melanoma recurrence.” Confusion regarding locally persistent and locally metastatic disease makes interpretation and analysis of previously published reports difficult if not impossible. Objective. The objective was to present a more precise definition of local melanoma recurrence. Methods. A case is reported and the literature is reviewed. Conclusion. Owing to the myriad of different definitions that exist in the medical literature, the term “local melanoma recurrence” is ambiguous and at times misleading. Melanoma that recurs locally from persistence of tumor at the resection margins has a vastly different prognosis than recurrence developing from local (satellite) metastases adjacent to the surgical resection site. We propose the use of the terms “persistent melanoma” and “local metastasis” as more precise and predictive of a patient's prognosis.
- Subjects :
- Surgical resection
medicine.medical_specialty
Skin Neoplasms
Disease
Dermatology
Terminology
Resection
Metastasis
Diagnosis, Differential
Terminology as Topic
medicine
Humans
Neoplasm Metastasis
Melanoma
business.industry
Locally Metastatic
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Surgery
Female
Radiology
Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
business
Medical literature
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10760512
- Volume :
- 30
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Dermatologic Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....73ef806ea6ea1143afe353a95bf9f7b7
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00042728-200412020-00010