Transpupillary thermotherapy for malignant choroidal melanomas-first experience;Transpupillare thermotherapie des malignen aderhautmelanoms. Erste erfahrungen

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 95, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 765-770

  Schneider, H ^a   Fischer, K ^a   Fietkau, R F ^a   Guthoff, R F ^a  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choroidal melanoma; Transpupillary thermotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; CHOROID TUMOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PUPIL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PUPIL;

EID: 0032199059     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003470050350     Document Type: Article

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