Differences in the diagnosis of primary cutaneous melanoma in the public and private healthcare systems in Joinville, Santa Catarina State, Brazil.

Raquel Bissacotti Steglich Silvana Cardoso Maria Helena da Costa Naumann Gaertner Karina Munhoz de Paula Alves Coelho Tania Ferreira Cestari Selma Cristina Franco

Published in: Anais brasileiros de dermatologia (2018)

thin cutaneous melanoma (in situ cutaneous melanoma and Breslow T1) showed the strongest association with the private healthcare system, while thick cutaneous melanoma was more frequent in the public system (Breslow category T3 and T4) (p <0.001).

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