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Surgical treatment and survival from cutaneous malignant melanoma
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
|June 1, 1985
Abstract:
Varied methods of primary surgical treatment of 189 cases of cutaneous malignant melanoma studied in Western Australia had no statistically significant effect on prognosis. The results indicate that wide excision is not justified as the standard treatment of cutaneous malignant melanoma.
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