Choroidal melanoma in a 7-year-old child treated by trans-scleral local resection

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 248, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 747-749

  Russo, Andrea ^a   Coupland, Sarah Ellen ^b   O'Keefe, Michael ^c   Damato, Bertil E ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c CHILDREN S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Children; Choroidal melanoma; Trans scleral local resection

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 27;

AMELANOTIC MELANOMA; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHOROID MELANOMA; CHROMOSOME 3; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 8; CYTOGENETICS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; FAMILIAL ATYPICAL MULTIPLE MOLE MELANOMA SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMA; MITOSIS; MULTIPLEX LIGATION DEPENDENT PROBE AMPLIFICATION; NEURILEMOMA; NEUROFIBROMA; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DETACHMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SCLERECTOMY; TRANSSCLERAL LOCAL RESECTION; VISUAL ACUITY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CHILD; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MELANOMA; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RUTHENIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SCLERA;

EID: 77952091568     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-009-1295-z     Document Type: Article

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