Tumor regression and visual outcome after transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) for malignant choroidal melanoma;Morphologische und funktioneile ergebnisse nach transpupillarer thermotherapie (TTT) maligner aderhautmelanome

Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 74-80

  Stoffelns, Bernhard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Angiography; Choroidal neovascularisation; Transpupillary thermotherapy; Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN; INDOCYANINE GREEN; RUTHENIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOROID CAPILLARY LAYER; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GLIOSIS; HUMAN; INDOCYANINE GREEN ANGIOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; TISSUE INJURY; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY; TUMOR GROWTH; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; CHOROID TUMOR; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PUPIL; RETREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUPIL; RETREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 31544450522     PISSN: 00232165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-858872     Document Type: Article

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