Do you know your guidelines? Diagnosis and management of cutaneous head and neck melanoma

Thomas J Ow; Sara Jo Grethlein; Cecelia E Schmalbach; Education Committee of the American Head and Neck Society (AHNS)

doi:10.1002/hed.25074

Do you know your guidelines? Diagnosis and management of cutaneous head and neck melanoma

Head Neck. 2018 May;40(5):875-885. doi: 10.1002/hed.25074. Epub 2018 Feb 27.

Authors

Thomas J Ow¹, Sara Jo Grethlein², Cecelia E Schmalbach³; Education Committee of the American Head and Neck Society (AHNS)

Affiliations

¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
² Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.
³ Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.

PMID: 29485688
DOI: 10.1002/hed.25074

Abstract

The following article is the next installment of the series "Do You Know Your Guidelines?" presented by the Education Committee of the American Head and Neck Society. Guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, workup, and management of cutaneous melanoma are reviewed in an evidence-based fashion.

Keywords: cutaneous melanoma; practice guidelines; sentinel node biopsy.

MeSH terms

Guideline Adherence
Head and Neck Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Head and Neck Neoplasms / therapy*
Humans
Melanoma / diagnosis*
Melanoma / therapy*
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Skin Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Skin Neoplasms / therapy*