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R.M. Mackie

Researcher at University of Glasgow

Publications -  75
Citations -  4651

R.M. Mackie is an academic researcher from University of Glasgow. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cutaneous melanoma & Melanoma. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 75 publications receiving 4533 citations. Previous affiliations of R.M. Mackie include Royal Hospital for Sick Children.

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Immediate or delayed dissection of regional nodes in patients with melanoma of the trunk: a randomised trial

TL;DR: Multivariate analysis showed that routine use of immediate node dissection had no impact on survival, whilst the status of regional nodes affected survival significantly, while the patients with regional nodes that became clinically and histologically positive during follow-up had the poorest prognosis.
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Revised U.K. guidelines for the management of cutaneous melanoma 2010.

TL;DR: These guidelines reflect the best published data available at the time the report was prepared as mentioned in this paper. Caution should be exercised in interpreting the data; the results of future studies may require alteration of the conclusions or recommendations in this report.
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Personal risk-factor chart for cutaneous melanoma

TL;DR: Information from a case-control study of all patients with cutaneous malignant melanoma first diagnosed in Scotland in 1987 has been used to derive a personal risk-factor chart that can be used by both the medical profession and the general public.
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CANCER, WARTS, AND SUNSHINE IN RENAL TRANSPLANT PATIENTS: A Case-control Study

TL;DR: The immunosuppressive effect of ultraviolet radiation in the sunburn spectrum in man and animals may be related to the increased incidence of cutaneous malignancy, actinic keratoses, and warts.
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The number and distribution of benign pigmented moles (melanocytic naevi) in a healthy British population

TL;DR: There is a significant association between the presence of naevi in early childhood (prior to 5 years of age) and the development in later life of large numbers of moles.