Radiation complications and tumor control after plaque radiotherapy of choroidal melanoma with macular involvement

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 579-589

  Gündüz, Kaan ^a   Shields, Carol L ^a   Shields, Jerry A ^a   Cater, Jacqueline ^a   Freire, Jorge E ^b   Brady, Luther W ^b  

^a WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHOROID MELANOMA; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CATARACT; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RETINA MACULOPATHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; EYE; EYE DISEASES; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIATION INJURIES; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0345034570     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(98)00445-0     Document Type: Article

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