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Abstract
The results we have obtained in this dread disease have led us to believe that the
principles, policies, and philosophy described above are the wise ones to follow in
the treatment of melanoma. Aggressive treatment by adequate radical surgery should
be continued to be taught and followed. I am of the opinion also that preventive lymph
node dissection should be performed whenever possible, even previous to clinical evidence
of metastases, certainly as early in the course of the disease as possible.
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Received:
May 29,
1956
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© 1957 Published by Elsevier Inc.
