Orbital irradiation for thyroid-associated orbitopathy: Conventional dose, low dose or no dose?

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 689-691

  Perros, Petros ^a   Krassas, Gerasimos E ^b  

^a FREEMAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b PANAGIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

CATARACT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE DURATION; EXOPHTHALMOS; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; EYE SURGERY; EYELID DISEASE; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; NOTE; ORBIT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETINOPATHY; STEROID THERAPY; THYROID DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EYE MOVEMENTS; FACIAL MUSCLES; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; ORBIT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036062509     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2002.01525.x     Document Type: Note

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