Prognosis in Metastatic Choroidal Melanoma

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1981, Pages 574-577

  Bedikian, Agop Y ^a   Kantarjian, Hagob ^a   Young, Sue E ^a   Bodey, Gerald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOROID TUMOR; EYE TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROGNOSIS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0019863870     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: 15418243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007611-198105000-00017     Document Type: Article

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