Plaque radiotherapy for selected orbital malignancies: Preliminary observations - The 2002 montgomery lecture, part 2

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 91-95

  Shields, Jerry A ^a,c   Shields, Carol L ^a   Freire, Jorge E ^b   Brady, Luther W ^b   Komarnicky, Lydia ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; EVISCERATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LACRIMAL GLAND; MALE; METASTASIS; OBSERVATION; ORBIT; ORBIT CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, ADENOID CYSTIC; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CHILD; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; EYELID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LACRIMAL APPARATUS DISEASES; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 0037347408     PISSN: 07409303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.IOP.0000056020.66654.33     Document Type: Article

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