The treatment of choroidal melanoma with 198Au plaque brachytherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 153-156

  Karvat, Anand ^a   Duzenli, Cheryl ^a   Ma, Roy ^a   Paton, Katherine ^b   Pickles, Tom ^a  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

198Au; Brachytherapy; Choroidal; Melanoma

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; GOLD 198; IODINE 125; RUTHENIUM 106;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOROID MELANOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRIS RUBEOSIS; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOPATHY; TOXICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GOLD RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035336909     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(00)00334-0     Document Type: Article

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