Tilting of radioactive plaques after initial accurate placement for treatment of uveal melanoma

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-70

  Almony, Arghavan ^a   Breit, Sean ^a   Zhao, Hui ^a   Garcia Ramirez, Jose ^a   Mansur, David B ^a   Harbour, J William ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ARTICLE; B SCAN; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC DISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RETINA FOVEA; SCLERA; UVEA MELANOMA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MELANOMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38349074313     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 00039950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2007.9     Document Type: Article

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