Selected Publications

Straker RJ 3rd, Taylor LA, Neuwirth MG, Sinnamon AJ, Shannon AB, Abbott J, Miura JT, Chu EY, Xu X, Karakousis GC: Optimizing detection of lymphatic invasion in primary cutaneous melanoma with the use of D2-40 and a paired melanocytic marker American Journal of Dermatopathology : 2021 (Epub).

Straker RJ 3rd, Thaler AS, Shannon AB, Miura JT, Chu EY, Karakousis GC, Ming ME: Acral lentiginous melanoma in the era of immune checkpoint blockade and targeted therapy: A National Cancer Database analysis Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology : 2021 (Epub).

Straker RJ 3rd, Song Y, Shannon AB, Chu EY, Miura JT, Ming ME, Karakousis GC: Response to a letter to the editor regarding "limitations of using the National Cancer Database to examine the effect of policy change on stage at presentation at the population-level" Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology : 2021 (Epub).

Han D, van Akkooi ACJ, Straker RJ 3rd, Shannon AB, Karakousis GC, Wang L, Kim KB, Reintgen D: Current management of melanoma patients with nodal metastases Clinical& Experimental Metastasis : 2021 (Epub).

Shannon AB, Straker RJ 3rd, Song Y, Kelz RR, Miura JT, Karakousis GC: Patient characteristics, outcomes, and trends in extremity sarcoma management by surgeon specialty Surgery : 2021 (Epub).

Straker RJ 3rd, Karakousis GC, Miura JT: ASO author reflections: False negative sentinel lymph node biopsy in Merkel cell carcinoma Annals of Surgical Oncology : 2021 (Epub).

Shannon AB, Wood C, Straker RJ 3rd, Miura JT, Ming ME, Elenitsas R, Karakousis GC: Age and mitogenicity are important predictors of sentinel lymph node metastasis in T1a melanoma Annals of Surgical Oncology : 2021 (Epub).

Straker RJ 3rd, Carr MJ, Sinnamon AJ, Shannon AB, Sun J, Landa K, Baecher KM, Wood C, Lynch K, Bartels HG, Panchaud R, Lowe MC, Slingluff CL, Jameson MJ, Tsai K, Faries MB, Beasley GM, Sondak V, Karakousis GC, Zager JS, Miura JT: Predictors of false negative sentinel lymph node biopsy in clinically localized Merkel cell carcinoma Annals of Surgical Oncology : 2021 (Epub).

Shannon AB, Song Y, Fraker DL, Roses RE, DeMatteo RP, Miura JT, Karakousis GC: Surgical resection of gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) in octogenarians American Journal of Surgery : 2021 (Epub).

Straker RJ 3rd, Karakousis GC: ASO author reflections: Preoperative biopsy for retroperitoneal sarcoma Annals of Surgical Oncology : 2021 (Epub).

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