Plaque radiotherapy for the management of uveal metastasis

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 31-37

  Shields, Carol L ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; ENUCLEATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LASER COAGULATION; METASTASIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECONDARY GLAUCOMA; SLIT LAMP; TIME; UVEA TUMOR; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031873512     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00055735-199806000-00006     Document Type: Review

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