Transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) for uveal melanomas;Transpupillare thermotherapie (TTT) von aderhautmelanomen. Langzeitergebnisse einer alleinigen TTT mit einem adapter für einen konventionellen infrarotlaser

Ophthalmologe

Volumn 102, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1162-1167

  Langmann, G ^a   Lechner, H ^a   Wenzel, E ^a   Mossbock G ^a   Wackernagel, W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Long term follow up; Transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT); Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

RUTHENIUM 106;

AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENUCLEATION; EYE FUNDUS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; REOPERATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; SCAR FORMATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY; UVEA MELANOMA; ADULT; AGED; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PUPIL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEA TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PUPIL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33644841578     PISSN: 0941293X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00347-005-1232-4     Document Type: Article

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