Immediate completion lymph node dissection in stage IIIA melanoma does not provide significant additional staging information beyond EORTC SN tumour burden criteria
1 Department of Surgical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesiomonass 121, NL-1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2 Department of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesiomonass 121, NL-1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
3 Department of Pathology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesiomonass 121, NL-1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
4 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesiomonass 121, NL-1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
5 Department of Surgical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesiomonass 121, NL-1066 CX, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: a.v.akkooi@nki.nl.