Screening for metastatic malignant melanoma of the uvea revisited

Cancer

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1151-1159

  Eskelin, Sebastian ^a   Pyrhönen, Seppo ^a   Summanen, Paula ^a   Prause, Jan Ulrik ^b   Kivelä, Tero ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Alkaline phosphatase; Aminotransferases; Lactate dehydrogenase; Liver; Malignant uveal melanoma; Metastasis; Screening; Ultrasonography; X ray

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMINOTRANSFERASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UVEA MELANOMA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; L-LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSAMINASES; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0345434977     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19990301)85:5<1151::AID-CNCR20>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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