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. 2021 Apr 13;35(7):e427–e428. doi: 10.1111/jdv.17252

Table 1.

Practical approach to melanoma surgery during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Wide excision should be performed as soon as possible but within 3 months at the latest for both melanoma in situ and invasive melanoma 3 , 4
Sentinel lymph node biopsy may be delayed by up to 3 months 5 , 6
Therapeutic lymph node dissection should be limited to patients with clinically evident regional lymph node metastases 7
High surgical priority should be given to all invasive primary melanomas, resectable stage III melanomas and oligo‐metastatic disease

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