Ruthenium-106 plaque radiotherapy alone or in combination with transpupillary thermotherapy in the management of choroidal melanoma

Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 338-343

  Gündüz, Kaan ^a   Kurt, Rengin Aslihan ^a   Akmeşe, Hale Elif ^a   Köse, Kenan ^a   Uçakhan Gündüz, Ömür ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

choroidal melanoma; iodine 125 plaque radiotherapy; ruthenium 106 plaque radiotherapy; transpupillary thermotherapy

Indexed keywords

RUTHENIUM 106; RUTHENIUM;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER SIZE; CHOROID MELANOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIVER METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC DISK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION CATARACT; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINOPATHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUPIL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PUPIL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUTHENIUM RADIOISOTOPES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77956055113     PISSN: 00215155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10384-010-0821-1     Document Type: Review

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