Survival following enucleation versus plaque radiotherapy in statistically matched subgroups of patients with choroidal melanomas: Results in patients treated between 1980 and 1987

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 237, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 558-567

  Augsburger, James J ^a,c   Schneider, Susan ^a   Freire, Jorge ^b   Brady, Luther W ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; IODINE 125; IRIDIUM 192; RUTHENIUM 106;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOROID MELANOMA; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; CILIARY BODY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032981520     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050279     Document Type: Article

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