Serum melatonin levels following enucleation and transpupillary thermotherapy in patients with choroidal melanoma

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 505-508

  Kiratli, Hayyam ^a   Gedik, Sansal ^a   Us, Dürdal ^a   Bilgiç, Sevgül ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Choroidal melanoma; Enucleation; Melatonin; Transpupillary thermotherapy

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SIZE; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENUCLEATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LIVER METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ADULT; AGED; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EYE ENUCLEATION; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MELANOMA; MELATONIN; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUPIL;

EID: 0346368394     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9071.2003.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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