Referral of Patients
| For patients with unresectable Stage IV
disease, referral directly to
Dr. William Grosh is generally the most efficient. For patients
with melanomas thicker than 1 mm or with advanced resectable disease,
Dr. Craig Slingluff will be happy to see them. Where that disease
may be confined to the head and neck, referral through
Dr. Paul Levine in Otolaryngology
and Head & Neck Surgery is appropriate. For patients with thin
melanomas up to 1 mm in thickness without any clinical evidence of
metastatic disease, Dr. Slingluff will be happy to see them but Dr.
John Hendrix in Dermatology
Surgery is also expert in handling issues related to melanoma
treatment and follow up and can perform the appropriate wide excisions
for those thin melanomas effectively and expeditiously. Where
consultation about the diagnosis is all that is requested, referral
directly to
Dr. Jim Patterson, our Dermatopathologist, will be responded to by
prompt review.
If you have any questions please feel free to give any of the above mentioned doctors a call.
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