Review Article

The Influence of Pregnancy on the Recurrence of Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma in Women

Table 1

Search strategy.

Database Hits

Medline((Woman OR Women OR Female OR Females OR Patient OR Patients) AND (Skin OR Cutaneous OR Malignant OR Melanoma OR Melanomas)) AND (Pregnancy OR Pregnancies OR Pregnant OR Gravidity OR Gravidities OR Gestation) AND (Recurrent OR Recurrence OR Recurrences OR Recurring OR Recidive OR Recidives OR Recidivism OR Recidivisms OR Recidivating OR Recidivation OR Relapsing OR Relapse OR Relapses)491

EmbaseIdem Medline593

The original search was performed on 04-01-2008 according to the strategy above.
An update performed on 01-05-2010 following the same search strategy yielded no additional relevant articles.