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Published on: May 18, 2018
Malignant melanoma: early detection and treatment
1Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts.
Primary Care
|September 1, 1989
Abstract:
The primary care physician has a critical role in the early detection and cure of malignant melanoma. We present an overview of melanoma epidemiology, offer guidelines for recognition of melanoma and its precursors, review prognosis and staging, and describe the latest developments in surgical and medical treatment.
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