title: Brazilian guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of primary cutaneous melanoma - Part II.
abstract: The last Brazilian guidelines on melanoma were published in 2002. Development in diagnosis and treatment made updating necessary. The coordinators elaborated ten clinical questions, based on PICO system. A Medline search, according to specific MeSH terms for each of the 10 questions was performed and articles selected were classified from A to D according to level of scientific evidence. Based on the results, recommendations were defined and classified according to scientific strength. The present Guidelines were divided in two parts for editorial and publication reasons. In this second part, the following clinical questions were answered: 1) which patients with primary cutaneous melanoma benefit from sentinel lymph node biopsy? 2) Follow-up with body mapping is indicated for which patients? 3) Is preventive excision of acral nevi beneficious to patients? 4) Is preventive excision of giant congenital nevi beneficious to patients? 5) How should stages 0 and I primary cutaneous melanoma patients be followed?
authors.affiliation: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Luiz Guilherme Martins
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Castro
authors.affiliation: Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Renato Marchiori
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Bakos
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Câncer de Pele, A. C. Camargo Cancer Center, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: João Pedreira
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Duprat Neto
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Flávia Vasques
authors.initials: FV
authors.lastname: Bittencourt
authors.affiliation: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Thais Helena Bello
authors.initials: TH
authors.lastname: Di Giacomo
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estácio de Sá, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Sérgio Schrader
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Serpa
authors.affiliation: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Maria Cristina de Lorenzo
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Messina
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual do Pará, Belém, PA, Brazil.
authors.forename: Walter Refkalefsky
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Loureiro
authors.affiliation: Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ricardo Silvestre e Silva
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Macarenco
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho", Botucatu, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: Hamilton Ometto
authors.initials: HO
authors.lastname: Stolf
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Gabriel
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gontijo
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D046169:Dermoscopy; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D009506:Nevus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors; D021701:Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*