Patterns of failure following the excision of in-transit lesions in melanoma and the influence of excisional margins.
Alexandra B GonzalezChristian L BaumJerry D BrewerChristopher J ArpeyWilliam S HarmsenVera J SumanSvetomir N MarkovicJames W JakubPublished in: Journal of surgical oncology (2018)
Patients with greater than 1 IT lesion and a DFI less than 1 year are at a higher risk of failure after surgical excision of a first IT event. Very few failures were isolated local disease within 2 cm of the IT resection scar, regardless of IT excision margin.
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