Results of proton radiotherapy for uveal melanomas

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue , 1997, Pages 111-122

  Egger, Emmanuel ^a   Zografos, Leonidas ^b   Munkel, Gudrun ^a   Böhringer, Terence ^a   Bercher, Ludmilla ^b   Chamot, Line ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b HÔPITAL OPHTALMIQUE JULES GONIN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENUCLEATION; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION RESPONSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UVEA TUMOR; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNDUS OCULI; GLAUCOMA, NEOVASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PROTONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0030629922     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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