Primary treatment of choroidal amelanotic melanoma with photodynamic therapy

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 548-549

  Donaldson, Mark J ^a   Lim, Lyndell ^a   Harper, C Alex ^a   Mackenzie, John ^a   Campbell, William G ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIAN EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Choroidal melanoma; Photodynamic therapy; Verteporfin

Indexed keywords

BENZOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; PORPHYRIN;

ADULT; AMBLYOPIA; AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; CASE REPORT; CHOROID MELANOMA; DIODE LASER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA FOVEA; SCAR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CHOROID TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA, AMELANOTIC; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644798613     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2005.01083.x     Document Type: Article

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