Transpupillary thermotherapy for choroidal melanoma

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 197-203

  Shields, Carol L ^a   Shields, Jerry A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE FUNDUS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INFRARED RADIATION; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTERIOR EYE CHAMBER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA INJURY; RETINA NEOVASCULARIZATION; RETINA TEAR; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR NECROSIS; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANIMALS; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MELANOMA; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL;

EID: 0032986935     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00055735-199906000-00008     Document Type: Review

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