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Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy for Thin Melanoma - Winship Cancer ...

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SLNB <strong>for</strong> thin melanoma<br />

<strong>Thin</strong> melanoma - outcome after SLNB<br />

<strong>Melanoma</strong>-specific survival according to the nodal status after wide local excision and sentinel<br />

lymph node biopsy in patients with thin primary cutaneous melanoma<br />

631 patients with melanomas ≤1 mm<br />

thick underwent WE/SLNB at JWCI<br />

Negative SLN - 600<br />

Positive SLN - 31 (5%)<br />

Median f/u 57 months<br />

Wright, BE, Arch Surg 2008;143:892

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