Positive Interaction Between Light Iris Color and Ultraviolet Radiation in Relation to the Risk of Uveal Melanoma. A Case-Control Study

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 340-348

  Schmidt Pokrzywniak, Andrea ^a   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^b   Bornfeld, Norbert ^b   Sauerwein, Wolfgang ^b   Stang, Andreas ^a  

^a Institute of Medical Epidemiology Biometry and Informatics   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EYE BURN; EYE COLOR; EYE PROTECTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LENTIGO; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SELF REPORT; SIBLING; SKIN COLOR; TELEPHONE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; UVEA MELANOMA;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; GERMANY; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; IRIS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 58849120434     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2008.09.040     Document Type: Article

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