Surgery
Volume 141, Issue 6 , Pages 728-735 , June 2007

Inguinal node dissection for melanoma in the era of sentinel lymph node biopsy

,Accepted 22 December 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2006.12.018

Surgery
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