Does escalation of the apical dose change treatment outcome in β-radiation of posterior choroidal melanomas with 106Ru plaques?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1360-1366

  Hermann, Robert Michael ^a   Pradier, Olivier ^a   Lauritzen, Katharina ^a   Ott, Marcel ^a   Schmidberger, Heinz ^a   Hess, Clemens F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Choroidal melanoma; Ruthenium plaque radiotherapy; Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RUTHENIUM; TUMORS;

OPTIMAL APICAL DOSE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

RUTHENIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEA MELANOMA; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RUTHENIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SURVIVAL RATE; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036535560     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(01)02763-8     Document Type: Article

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