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Acral lentiginous melanoma: a clinicoprognostic study of 126 cases.
The British journal of dermatology - 1 Sept 2006
Phan A, Touzet S, Dalle S, Ronger-Savlé S, Balme B, Thomas L
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BACKGROUND: Although the histopathological subtype of melanoma has not been clearly proven to carry independent prognostic significance, acral lentiginous melanoma (ALM) seems to confer a poorer prognosis mainly because disease is often more advanced at the time of diagnosis. OBJECTIVES: To investigate the distinctive epidemiological and clinical characteristics of ALM, a peculiar histological entity, and to...
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