Incidence and clinical characteristics of symptomatic choroidal metastasis from lung cancer

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 515-519

  Kreusel, Klaus Martin ^a,d   Bechrakis, Nikolaos E ^b   Wiegel, Thomas ^c   Krause, Lothar ^b   Foerster, Michael H ^b  

^a Eye Hospital   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^d DRK KLINIKEN BERLIN WESTEND   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choroidal metastasis; Choroidal tumour; Frequency; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOROID DISEASE; CHOROID METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; EYE EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOID TUMOR; CARCINOMA, LARGE CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 48449096787     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2007.01081.x     Document Type: Article

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