Melanoma maligno cutâneo no Rio Grande do Sul: estudo de 101 casos / Cutaneous malignant melanoma in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil: study of 101 cases
Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. (1992)
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38(3): 122-126, Jul.-Set. 1992.
Article
in Portuguese
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| ID: lil-320062
RESUMO
Between 1985 and 1989, at the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), 101 cases of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) were reviewed in order to evaluate the status of the disease at diagnosis. The cases were obtained from the records of the pathology service of the HCPA. Nodular Melanoma (ND) was the most frequent type (36.6). In males, the predominant site was in the head, neck and trunk while in females it was in the lower limbs Clark level V was found in 35.6 of the cases. In 23.8, the tumor was larger than 4mm in depth according to Breslow classification. These results clearly demonstrate that the diagnosis of CMM is established in later stages of the disease.
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LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Skin Neoplasms
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Melanoma
Type of study:
Observational study
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
South America
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Brazil
Language:
Portuguese
Journal:
Rev. Assoc. Med. Bras. (1992)
Year:
1992
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Secretaria do Meio Ambiente do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul/BR
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Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul/BR
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