The Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS) randomized trial of pre- enucleation radiation of large choroidal melanoma III: Local complications and observations following enucleation COMS report no. 11

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 362-372

  Schachat, A P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

CHOROID NEOPLASMS; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032169645     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(98)00091-9     Document Type: Article

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