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. Copyright © 2013 S. Karger AG, Basel.
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. - ISSN 1018-8665. - 226:SUPPL.1(2013), pp. 28-31. [10.1159/000348873]
Surgical treatment of melanoma: A survey of italian hospitals
Stanganelli, Ignazio;
2013-01-01
Abstract
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. Copyright © 2013 S. Karger AG, Basel.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
