ACQUIRED PRECURSORS OF CUTANEOUS MALIGNANT-MELANOMA - THE FAMILIAL DYSPLASTIC NEVUS SYNDROME
ACQUIRED PRECURSORS OF CUTANEOUS MALIGNANT-MELANOMA - THE FAMILIAL DYSPLASTIC NEVUS SYNDROME
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DOI:
10.1056/nejm198501103120205
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
FRASER, MC
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作者:
GREENE, MH;CLARK, WH;FRASER, MC
THE incidence of cutaneous malignant melanoma is rising rapidly throughout the world.1The most current data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) system reveal an 80 per cent increase in the incidence of melanoma in the United States between 1973 and 1980 (Shambaugh E, Greene MH, Young J: unpublished observations) — a rate of increase second only to that of lung cancer in women. Diagnosis and surgical excision of strictly defined early melanoma (<0.76 mm in thickness) are nearly synonymous with a cure of the lesion.2,3Thus, the need for wide dissemination of clinical criteria . . .