Prospective study on exclusive, nonsurgical strontium-/ yttrium-90 irradiation of pterygia

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 180, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 510-516

  Pajic, Bojan ^a   Pallas, Andreas ^a   Aebersold, Daniel ^b   Gruber, Guenther ^b   Greiner, Richard H ^a,b  

^a Eye Center Pallas Clinic   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Exclusive irradiation; Irradiation for benign disease; Pterygium

Indexed keywords

STRONTIUM; YTTRIUM 90;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTIGMATISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRON THERAPY; EXCISION; EXCLUSIVE BETA IRRADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PTERYGIUM; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STUDENT T TEST; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 4043111941     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-004-1230-5     Document Type: Article

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