Adjunctive plaque radiotherapy after local resection of uveal melanoma

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 30, Issue , 1997, Pages 123-132

  Damato, Bertil ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RUTHENIUM;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCLERA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UVEA TUMOR; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REOPERATION; RETINAL DETACHMENT; RISK FACTORS; RUTHENIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SCLERA; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0030630636     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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