Surgical treatment of melanoma: A survey of italian hospitals

Alessandro Testori; Vanna Chiarion-Sileni; Ignazio Stanganelli; Carlo Riccardo Rossi; Franco Di Filippo; Ruggero Ridolfi; Giorgio Parmiani; Sara Gandini; Javier Soteldo

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Surgical treatment of melanoma: A survey of italian hospitals

Alessandro Testori, Vanna Chiarion-Sileni, Ignazio Stanganelli, Carlo Riccardo Rossi, Franco Di Filippo, Ruggero Ridolfi, Giorgio Parmiani, Sara Gandini, Javier Soteldo

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Surgery is the first option for treating melanoma regardless of stage at presentation. We surveyed a representative sample of hospitals to evaluate management and quality of surgical indications for melanoma in Italy. At analysis, hospitals were grouped into high-or low-volume centers, with the population median of 25 diagnoses serving as the cut-off. Surgery for primary melanoma was similar between hospital groups. More high-volume centers were organized to perform sentinel node biopsy (91 vs. 56%). There were no major differences between high-and low-volume centers concerning the surgical approach to stage III and IV disease.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	28-31
Number of pages	4
Journal	Dermatology
Volume	226
Issue number	SUPPL.1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1159/000348873
Publication status	Published - May 2013

Keywords

Incision margins
Lymph node biopsy
Melanoma
Surgery

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Dermatology

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Surgical treatment of melanoma : A survey of italian hospitals. / Testori, Alessandro ; Chiarion-Sileni, Vanna ; Stanganelli, Ignazio; Rossi, Carlo Riccardo; Di Filippo, Franco; Ridolfi, Ruggero; Parmiani, Giorgio; Gandini, Sara; Soteldo, Javier.

In: Dermatology, Vol. 226, No. SUPPL.1, 05.2013, p. 28-31.

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