Proton radiation therapy for medium and large choroidal melanoma: Preservation of the eye and its functionality

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1053-1059

  Fuss, Martin ^a   Loredo, Lilia N ^b   Blacharski, Paul A ^c   Grove, Roger I ^b   Slater, Jerry D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Inland Eye Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Choroidal melanoma; Enucleation; Eye tumors; Outcome; Protons

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CHOROID MELANOMA; CILIARY BODY; ENUCLEATION; EYE PROTECTION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IRIS RUBEOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OPTIC DISK; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA FOVEA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROTONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0035869716     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)01430-9     Document Type: Article

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