Treatment of choroidal melanoma using photodynamic therapy

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 898-899

  Barbazetto, Irene A ^a,c   Lee, Thomas C ^b   Rollins, Indira S ^b   Chang, Stanley ^a   Abramson, David H ^b  

^a New York Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; INDOCYANINE GREEN; IODINE 125; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; RUTHENIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESISTANCE; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; CHOROID MELANOMA; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; ENUCLEATION; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0037604840     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(02)02222-5     Document Type: Article

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