Advanced malignant melanoma during pregnancy: technical description of sentinel lymph node biopsy followed by radical lymph node dissection

• Main Authors: Alberto Julius Alves Wainstein (Author), Lívia Cristina Lima Soares Barbosa (Author), Milhem Kansaon (Author), Marcelo Salomé (Author), Ana Paula Drummond-Lage (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco, 2015-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Introduction: melanoma is a very aggressive cancer, with increasing incidence, and is currently the fifth most common cancer in men and the sixth most common in women in the United States. Melanoma is not unusual in pregnancy, with an estimated occur-rence rate of 1:1.000. Although not the...