A prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of orbital radiotherapy for Graves' ophthalmopathy

Ophthalmology

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1523-1534

  Gorman, Colum A ^a   Garrity, James A ^a   Fatourechi, Vahab ^a   Bahn, Rebecca S ^a   Petersen, Ivy A ^a   Stafford, Scott L ^a   Earle, John D ^a   Forbes, Glenn S ^a   Kline, Robert W ^a   Bergstralh, Erik J ^a   Offord, Kenneth P ^a   Rademacher, Diana M ^a   Stanley, Nancy M ^a   Bartley, George B ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXOPHTHALMOS; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; AGED; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; ORBIT; PATIENT SELECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034862613     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(01)00632-7     Document Type: Article

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