{"title":"Modern surgical treatment of malignant skin melanoma: A brief literature overview","authors":"S. Strashilov, A. Yordanov","doi":"10.21767/amj.2018.3504","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Background Malignant melanoma (MM) of the skin is a rare, highly malignant tumour, affecting younger age. Its incidence rate has been rising as compared to all malignant neoplasms – 5 per cent of all newly diagnosed cancers in men, and 6 per cent of those in women. Aims The aim of the literature review is to present the contemporary tendencies in the surgical treatment and monitoring of patients with malignant melanoma of the","PeriodicalId":46823,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Medical Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Australasian Medical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21767/amj.2018.3504","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Background Malignant melanoma (MM) of the skin is a rare, highly malignant tumour, affecting younger age. Its incidence rate has been rising as compared to all malignant neoplasms – 5 per cent of all newly diagnosed cancers in men, and 6 per cent of those in women. Aims The aim of the literature review is to present the contemporary tendencies in the surgical treatment and monitoring of patients with malignant melanoma of the