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World J Surg Proced. Nov 28, 2015; 5(3): 229-234
Published online Nov 28, 2015. doi: 10.5412/wjsp.v5.i3.229
Published online Nov 28, 2015. doi: 10.5412/wjsp.v5.i3.229
Malignant melanoma in the pediatric population
John Psaltis, Eric Reintgen, Ali Antar, Mark Giori, Leah Alvin, Alyssa Benjamin, Bridget Budny, Taylor Gianangelo, Aaron Gruman, Anna Stamas, Michael Reintgen, Rosemary Giuliano, Douglas Reintgen, Department of Surgery, Morsani School of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, United States
Jeff Smith, Department of Pathology, Florida Hospital - N Pinellas, Tarpon Springs, FL 34689, United States
Author contributions: All authors contributed to this manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: This study was approved by the University of South Florida Institutional Review Board - 6/2015.
Informed consent statement: Informed consent was obtained from the parents of the children described in the study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All the authors have no conflicts of interests to declare.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Douglas Reintgen, MD, Department of Surgery, Morsani School of Medicine, University of South Florida, MDC 52, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., Tampa, FL 33612, United States. dreintge@health.usf.edu
Telephone: +1-813-4408554 Fax: +1-813-9059891
Received: May 20, 2015
Peer-review started: May 21, 2015
First decision: June 18, 2015
Revised: July 1, 2015
Accepted: September 7, 2015
Article in press: September 8, 2015
Published online: November 28, 2015
Peer-review started: May 21, 2015
First decision: June 18, 2015
Revised: July 1, 2015
Accepted: September 7, 2015
Article in press: September 8, 2015
Published online: November 28, 2015
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