In a study of 110 patients with 111 malignant melanomas, the most important factors in
determining the ultimate prognosis were: the sex of the patient, the site of the lesion and the …

Discussion These results compare well with those of Heise et al.(1961) who, in a five-year
survey of 1447 patients with limb melanoma who had undergone all forms of treatment …

ONCE THE diagnosis of malignant melanoma is made, the surgeon must perform an
extremely wide surgical excision of the tumor and the skin which surrounds it. Cosmetic …

tumors. The tendency of this neoplasm to arise in a ubiquitous benign lesion, the pigmented
or junctional nevus,*** its capacity to spread widely without re-gard for anatomic boundaries …

T o the present time, approximately 1,300 patients with malignant melanoma have been
referred to The University of Texas MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. This …

Survival from malignant melanoma has been serially followed over a long period of time. A
summation of this information is seen in Table 5. The steadily improving 5-and 10-yr disease …

BASIC CONCEPTS of surgical management of malignant melanoma have changed very
little over the past 20 years although there has been considerable improvement in overall …

THE REcoRDs of patients with malignant melanoma have been reviewed and an-alyzed
with respect to the efficacy of surgical treatment. The purpose is to advocate a radical …

Method The affected limb is isolated by a tourniquet and the main artery and vein are
cannulated. An extracorporeal circuit containing a pump oxygenator is used. The cytotoxic …

Clinical Material In Part I of this presentation the case material was categorized according to
the extent of the disease at the time of the first examination. Those patients with lo-cally …