Conjunctival melanoma: The role of conservative surgery and radiotherapy in regional metastatic disease

Laryngoscope

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 817-822

  Tatla, Taran ^a   Hungerford, John ^a   Plowman, Nick ^a   Ghufoor, Khalid ^a   Keene, Malcolm ^a  

^a ST BARTHOLOMEW S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conjunctival neoplasms; Malignant melanoma; Mortality; Neoplasm metastasis; Radiotherapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MELANOMA; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 18044370069     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MLG.0000157327.10597.86     Document Type: Article

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