Combined brachytherapy and transpupillary thermotherapy for large choroidal melanoma: Tumor regression and early complications

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 244, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1575-1580

  Kreusel, Klaus Martin ^a   Bechrakis, Nikolaos ^b   Riese, Juliane ^b   Krause, Lothar ^b   Wachtlin, Joachim ^b   Foerster, Michael H ^b  

^a DRK KLINIKEN BERLIN WESTEND   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Choroidal melanoma; Transpupillary thermotherapy

Indexed keywords

RUTHENIUM 106;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SIZE; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENUCLEATION; EXUDATE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA MACULOPATHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY; VISION; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PUPIL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RUTHENIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33751501447     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-006-0357-8     Document Type: Article

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