Prognostic Variables and Surgical Management of Foot Melanoma: Review of a 25-Year Institutional Experience

Table 1

A review of the literature on foot melanoma that shows whether cutaneous foot melanoma exclusively, histology, site of origin on the foot, lymph node status, recurrence, overall survival, median followup, and average thickness were reported and analyzed.

Study	Foot only	Histology	Site	LNs	Recurrence	Survival	Followup (months)	Average thickness (mm)
Booher and Pack, 1957 [3]	No	No	No	Yes	Wound, regional, distant	Yes	192	No
Keyhani, 1977 [17]	No	No	No	Yes	Wound, regional, distant	Yes	60	No
Magnus, 1977 [18]	No	No	No	No	Not assessed	Yes	216	No
Feibleman et al., 1980 [12]	No	Yes	No	Yes	Wound, regional, total	No	60	No
Sondergaard and Olsen, 1980 [22]	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not assessed	Yes	120	No
Day Jr. et al., 1981 [11]	Yes (29)	Yes	No	No	Overall recurrence	No	60	No
Hughes et al., 1985 [16]	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Wound, in-transit, overall	Yes	<12	No
Urist et al., 1985 [24]	No	No	No	No	Wound	No	120	No
Slingluff Jr. et al., 1990 [21]	No	No	No	Yes	Wound, regional, distant skin, other	Yes	62	2.64
Barnes et al., 1994 [10]	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Not assessed	Yes	72	No
Fortin et al., 1995 [13]	No	No	Yes	Yes	Wound, regional, total	Yes	45	3.03
Garbe et al., 1995 [14]	No	No	No	No	Not assessed	Yes	120	2.2
Tseng et al., 1997 [2]	No	Yes	No	Yes	Wound, distant	No	67	No
Gray et al., 2006 [6]	No	Yes	No	Yes	Wound, regional, distant	No	33	1.75
Nagore et al., 2006 [19]	No	Yes	No	No	Not assessed	No	None	1.3
Soudry et al., 2008 [23]	No	No	No	Yes	Overall recurrence	Yes	53	3.28
Rex et al., 2009 [20]	No	No	No	No	Wound, satellite/in-transit, regional, distant	Yes	50	2.8