Choroid metastases: Clinical features and treatments in 123 patients

Cancer

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1232-1238

  D'Abbadie, Isabelle ^a   Arriagada, Rodrigo ^a,b   Spielmann, Marc ^a   Lê, Monique G ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^b Instituto de Radiomedicina Santiago   (Chile)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Choroid metastasis (CM); Clinical features; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTIMETABOLITE; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; ELLIPTICINE; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; INTERCALATING AGENT; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN; MITOXANTRONE; THIOTEPA; VINBLASTINE; VINCA ALKALOID; VINCRISTINE; VINDESINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHOROID METASTASIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR REGRESSION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, PHYTOGENIC; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; TREATMENT FAILURE; VINCA ALKALOIDS;

EID: 0041916238     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11622     Document Type: Article

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