Meanings of thin melanoma in English

These factors may guide appropriate selection of patients with thin melanoma for SLNB.

Conclusions: The incidence of SN tumor involvement in patients with thin melanoma is considerable.

Conclusions: Many patients with thin melanoma will have nodal recurrence after wide excision alone.

The definitions and histologic criteria for thin melanoma were reviewed.

Conclusions: The status of the SN is significantly linked to survival in patients with thin melanoma.

We examined a large cohort of patients with thin melanoma to better define predictors of SLN positivity.

Despite many molecular and other ancillary investigations, Breslow thickness remains the most important prognostic factor in thin melanoma.

Hypothesis: The status of the sentinel node (SN) confers important prognostic information for patients with thin melanoma.

The proportion of nuclei of an aggressive phenotype may lend itself as an effective prognostic clue for thin melanoma lesions.

This small exploratory study was designed to test the hypothesis that thin melanoma lesions contain nuclei of two similar phenotypes, in different proportions.

On multivariate analysis, none of the clinical or histopathologic factors examined were significantly associated with SN tumor involvement in patients with thin melanoma.

The following communication summarizes the proceedings of a 1-day Workshop of the International Melanoma Pathology Study Group, which was devoted to thin melanoma.

Because of the increasing frequency of thin melanomas, there is a great need to develop more refined predictors of thin melanomas with worse clinical outcome.