Combined plaque radiotherapy and transpupillary thermotherapy in choroidal melanoma: 5 years' experience

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 87, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1370-1373

  Bartlema, Y M ^a   Oosterhuis, J A ^a   Journee de Korver J G ^a   Tjho Heslinga, R E ^a   Keunen, J E E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUTHENIUM 106;

ADULT; AGED; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; ENUCLEATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INFRARED RADIATION; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE RETINOPATHY; PUPIL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETINA MACULOPATHY; SCAR; SCLERA; THICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EYE ENUCLEATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RUTHENIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0345305812     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.87.11.1370     Document Type: Article

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