Retrobulbar irradiation for Graves' ophthalmopathy - Long-term results;Retrobulbäre bestrahlung bei endokriner orbitopathie - Erfahrungen im langzeitverlauf

Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde

Volumn 219, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 876-882

  Pitz, Susanne ^a,b   Kahaly, George ^a   Rösler, Hans Peter ^a   Krummenauer, Frank ^a   Wagner, Bernd ^a   Stübler, Michael ^a   Pfeiffer, Norbert ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Graves' ophthalmopathy; Long term follow up; Ocular motility impairment; Retrobulbar irradiation; Steroid therapy

Indexed keywords

STEROID;

ARTICLE; CHEMOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOPIA; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; EXOPHTHALMOS; EYE DISEASE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE PAIN; EYE SURGERY; EYELID REFLEX; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE ABNORMALITY; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RADIATION SICKNESS; RETROBULBAR IRRADIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; ORBIT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; STEROIDS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0036994428     PISSN: 00232165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-36948     Document Type: Article

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