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CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, Vol 22, 216-220, Copyright © 1972 by American Cancer Society

Malignant Melanoma: Current Concepts of Lymph Node Dissection

¹ Samuel D. Gross Professor of Surgery and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
² Senior Resident in Surgery, Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, New York, New York.
³ Instructor in Surgery, Department of Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The results of this study indicate that the survival statistics from melanoma continue to improve over the years; that wide excision of the primary lesion and a routine lymph node dissection have positive factors which justify an elective lymph node dissection; that a discontinuous lymph node dissection is equally satisfactory and gives comparable five-year survival statistics if a melanoma is in an anatomical position which does not lend itself readily to incontinuity dissection.