Prognostic factors for survival after enucleation for choroidal melanoma

International Journal of Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1185-1189

  Baldi, Gianluca ^a   Baldi, Feliciano ^a   Maguire, Maureen ^b   Massaro Giordano, Mina ^b  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agoraphilic nucleolar organizing regions; Choroidal melanoma; Ploidy; Prognosis; Proliferating cell nuclear antigen

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS DNA; CYCLINE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOROID MELANOMA; DISEASE COURSE; DNA CONTENT; ENUCLEATION; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031742413     PISSN: 10196439     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijo.13.6.1185     Document Type: Article

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