Plaque radiotherapy for juxtapapillary choroidal melanoma overhanging the optic disc in 141 consecutive patients

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1515-1522

  Sagoo, Mandeep S ^a   Shields, Carol L ^a,c   Mashayekhi, Arman ^a   Freire, Jorge ^b   Emrich, Jacqueline ^b   Reiff, Jay ^b   Komarnicky, Lydia ^b   Shields, Jerry A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HAHNEMANN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60; IODINE 125;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CHOROID MELANOMA; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLIFERATIVE RETINOPATHY; RADIATION DOSE; RETINA MACULOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OPTIC DISK; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 55949137262     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archopht.126.11.1515     Document Type: Article

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