[Late recurrence of melanoma beyond 10 years].
Late recurrence phenomenon in the course of melanoma (i.e. first recurrence after a 10 years or more disease free interval) is often ignored. Eleven cases and a literature review are presented. Main conclusions are: --lack of clinical or pathological criteria predicting the risk for a given patient, --possible underevaluation of the number of patients affected by these late recurrences, due to a premature follow up cessation, --advantages of prolonged clinical follow up over ten years aimed at early diagnosis of locoregional metastasis which may benefit from successful surgical treatment.
Avril
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Service de Dermatologie, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif.
Nguyen
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Duvillard
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Bognel
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Margulis
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D000328:Adult; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D016019:Survival Analysis; D013997:Time Factors