A 30-month prospective study on the treatment of retinoblastoma in the Gabriel Touré Teaching Hospital, Bamako, Mali

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 467-469

  Boubacar, Togo ^a   Fatou, Sylla ^b   Fousseyni, Traoré ^a   Mariam, Sylla ^a   Fatoumata, Dicko Traoré ^a   Toumani, Sidibé ^a   Abdoul Aziz, Diakité ^a   Marouf, Keïta Mamadou ^a  

^a Paediatric Service of Gabriel Touré Hospital   (Mali)

^b African Institute of Tropical Ophthalmology Mali   (Mali)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; VINCRISTINE SULFATE;

ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CHILD; DIARRHEA; DRUG FATALITY; ENUCLEATION; EXOPHTHALMOS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFANT; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALI; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PEDIATRIC WARD; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINOBLASTOMA; RURAL AREA; SEX RATIO; SOLID TUMOR; STOMATITIS; SYMPTOM; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MALI; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; RETINOBLASTOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950791905     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2009.159699     Document Type: Article

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