Systemic therapy of non-resectable metastatic melanoma

Azadeh Orouji1, Sergij Goerdt, Jochen Utikal

  • 1Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology, University Medical Center Mannheim, Ruprecht-Karl University of Heidelberg, Mannheim, Germany. jochen.utikal@umm.de.

Cancers
|November 28, 2013
PubMed

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