Socioeconomic status and choroidal melanoma in Scotland

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 383-384

  Lockington, David ^a   Chadha, Vikas ^a   Russell, Heather ^a   Young, David ^b   Cauchi, Paul ^a   Kemp, Ewan ^a  

^a GARTNAVEL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUTHENIUM;

ADULT; CANCER SURGERY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CHOROID MELANOMA; CRIME; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING; HUMAN; INCOME; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL ACUITY; VITRECTOMY;

CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCOTLAND; SOCIAL CLASS; VISUAL ACUITY; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 77749319514     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2009.407     Document Type: Letter

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