Plaque brachytherapy for the management of ocular surface malignancies with corneoscleral invasion

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 577-583

  Walsh Conway, Natalie ^a   Conway, R Max ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY EYE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Conjunctiva; Melanoma; OSSN; Radiotherapy; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125; MITOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; CORNEA; CORNEA ULCER; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MELANOMA; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PLAQUE BRACHYTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SCLERA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; CORNEAL DISEASES; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERAL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 68349144503     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2009.02092.x     Document Type: Article

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