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Radiation Oncology • Internal Medicine • Dermatology • General Dermatology • Surgical Dermatology
How long can a patient with newly diagnosed merkel cell carcinoma wait for wide local excision with sentinel node biopsy?
If I can't get them in with a surgical oncologist for the lymph node would it be better to do the wide local excision in my office immediately and risk disturbing the lymphatics?