Artigo Acesso aberto Produção Nacional Revisado por pares

Cutaneous melanoma: descriptive epidemiological study

2008; Medical Association of São Paulo; Volume: 126; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s1516-31802008000100008

ISSN

1806-9460

Autores

Nelson Marcos Ferrari Júnior, Helena Müller, Manoel Carlos Sampaio de Almeida Ribeiro, Marcus Maia, José Antônio Sanches,

Tópico(s)

Infectious Diseases and Mycology

Resumo

Cutaneous melanoma represents around 3% of all skin tumors. About 20% of such patients will have advanced disease and will die before reaching five years of survival. The aim of this paper was to describe the clinical and histopathological variables and their correlations.

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