Long-term surgical outcome of posterior choroidal melanoma treated by endoresection

Retina

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 908-914

  Karkhaneh, Reza ^a   Chams, Hormoz ^a   Amoli, Fahimeh Asadi ^a   Riazi Esfahani, Mohammad ^a   Ahmadabadi, Mehdi Nili ^a   Mansouri, Mohammad Reza ^a   Nouri, Keramat ^a   Karkhaneh, Akbar ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Choroidal melanoma; Melanoma metastasis; Melanoma mortality rates; Transvitreal endoresection

Indexed keywords

FLUOROCARBON; SILICONE OIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOBOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENUCLEATION; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAS EXCHANGE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LIGHT ADAPTATION; LIVER METASTASIS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETINOTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; SILICONE OILS; SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

EID: 34748921023     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e31802fa2db     Document Type: Article

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