Ten-year results of transscleral resection of large uveal melanomas: Local tumour control and metastatic rate

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 460-466

  Bechrakis, Nikolaos E ^a   Petousis, Vasileios ^b   Willerding, Gregor ^b   Krause, Lothar ^c   Wachtlin, Joachim ^d   Stroux, Andrea ^b   Foerster, Michael H ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c DESSAU MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

^d Sankt Getrauden ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUTHENIUM 106;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RISK; CATARACT; ENUCLEATION; EVISCERATION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; LENS IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHACOEMULSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RETINA DETACHMENT; SCLERA BUCKLING PROCEDURE; TRANSSCLERAL RESECTION; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; UVEA MELANOMA; VITRECTOMY; VITREORETINOPATHY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LIGHT COAGULATION; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950837273     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2009.162487     Document Type: Article

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