Postoperative irradiation for pterygium: Retrospective analysis of 1,253 patients from the Osaka University Hospital

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 182, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 437-442

  Isohashi, Fumiaki ^a,c   Inoue, Takehiro ^a   Xing, Shuo ^a   Eren, Cetin Bekir ^a   Ozeki, Shuji ^b   Inoue, Toshihiko ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

irradiation; 90Sr; Benign disease; Pterygium; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

STRONTIUM 90;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; ELECTRON THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PHOTOPHOBIA; PTERYGIUM; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENCE RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEAR FLOW; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISORDER;

ADULT; BETA RAYS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PTERYGIUM; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747066455     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-006-1484-1     Document Type: Article

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