Toward Better Management of Merkel Cell Carcinoma Using a Consensus Staging System, New Diagnostic Codes and a Recently Discovered VirusHacia un mejor tratamiento del carcinoma de células de merkel utilizando una estadificación de consenso, nuevos códigos diagnósticos y un virus descubierto recientemente
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Merkel cell carcinoma from 2008 to 2012: Reaching a new level of understanding
2013, Cancer Treatment ReviewsCitation Excerpt :The most important feature of this new system is the addition of sub-stages for local and nodal disease, based on the method of nodal examination for local disease and extent of involvement for nodal disease. If only clinical nodal staging was performed, the chance of missing microscopic nodal involvement is approximately 32%.33 Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is an important procedure for determining the microscopic involvement of nodes and thus the prognosis.
Merkel cell carcinoma: An update
2011, PielPathologic nodal evaluation improves prognostic accuracy in Merkel cell carcinoma: Analysis of 5823 cases as the basis of the first consensus staging system
2010, Journal of the American Academy of DermatologyCitation Excerpt :Here we present the prognostic analysis used to derive the first unified staging system for MCC. It is anticipated that this staging system, along with the recent introduction of 7 new MCC-specific diagnostic codes (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification),21 will aid in standardizing language used to describe MCC and its prognosis among patients, clinicians, and researchers. This staging system is the result of multidisciplinary consensus meetings that analyzed NCDB data from more than 10 times as many patients as any of the prior MCC staging systems.
Merkel cell carcinoma
2010, Annals of OncologyCitation Excerpt :The presence of micrometastases in the sentinel lymph nodes appears to denote poorer prognosis. When distant metastases are expected the appropriate imaging of the various organs should be performed [29]. Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy does not appear very suited to determining tumor spread.
Clinical Recognition, Diagnosis, and Staging of Merkel Cell Carcinoma, and the Role of the Multidisciplinary Management Team
2010, Current Problems in CancerCitation Excerpt :The lack of specific codes also made it far more difficult to track the costs and impact of Merkel cell carcinoma on the health care system as these are the codes used to track billing and insurance fees. The Merkel cell carcinoma Multicenter Interest Group17 realized that this issue was an impediment in management and petitioned the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address this.18 Merkel cell carcinoma was thus assigned 7 new, disease-specific codes (Table 3) that were made active on October 1, 2009.
Rapidly growing gastric metastasis of Merkel cell carcinoma, an unusual cause of melena
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