Finger's "slotted" eye plaque for radiation therapy: Treatment of juxtapapillary and circumpapillary intraocular tumours

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 891-894

  Finger, Paul T ^a  

^a New York Eye Cancer Centre   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103; RUTHENIUM 106;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR TUMOR; OCULAR ISCHEMIC SYNDROME; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR GROWTH;

ADULT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MELANOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOMETRY;

EID: 34347353271     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2007.114082     Document Type: Article

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