Late isolated brain metastasis following enucleation for choroidal melanoma

Ophthalmic Surgery Lasers and Imaging

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-154

  Achtaropoulos, Athanassios K ^a   Mitsos, Aristotelis P ^a   Detorakis, Efstathios T ^c,d   Georgakoulias, Nikolaos V ^b   Drakonaki, Eleni E ^c   Kozobolis, Vassilios P ^c  

^a 492 General Army Hospital of Alexandroupolis   (Greece)

^b G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^d DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CASE REPORT; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENUCLEATION; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEIZURE; SYMPTOM; BRAIN TUMOR; CHOROID TUMOR; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REOPERATION; TIME;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EYE ENUCLEATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MELANOMA; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 15944391684     PISSN: 15428877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/1542-8877-20050301-13     Document Type: Article

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