A long-term visual outcome comparison in patients with optic nerve sheath meningioma managed with observation, surgery, radiotherapy, or surgery and radiotherapy

Ophthalmology

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 890-899

  Turbin, Roger E ^a,e   Thompson, Charlotte R ^b   Kennerdell, John S ^c   Cockerham, Kimberly Peele ^c   Kupersmith, Mark J ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Inst for Neurology and Neurosurgery   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IRITIS; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGIOMA; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; NERVE PARALYSIS; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OPTIC NERVE TUMOR; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOPATHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; OBSERVATION; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036239455     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(02)01017-5     Document Type: Article

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