Melanoma Patients with Unknown Primary Site or Nodal Recurrence after Initial Diagnosis Have a Favourable Survival Compared to Those with Synchronous Lymph Node Metastasis and Primary Tumour

• Benjamin Weide ,

  * E-mail: benjamin.weide@med.uni-tuebingen.de

  Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Christine Faller,

  Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Margrit Elsässer,

  Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Petra Büttner,

  Affiliation Skin Cancer Research Group, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

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• Annette Pflugfelder,

  Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Ulrike Leiter,

  Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Thomas Kurt Eigentler,

  Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Jürgen Bauer,

  Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Friedegund Meier,

  Affiliation Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center, Tuebingen, Germany

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• Claus Garbe

  Affiliations Center for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center, Tuebingen, Germany, Skin Cancer Research Group, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia

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