Topical 1% 5-fluorouracil in ocular surface squamous neoplasia: A long-term safety study

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 355-359

  Parrozzani, Raffaele ^a   Lazzarini, Daniela ^a   Alemany Rubio, Ernesto ^b,c   Urban, Francesca ^b   Midena, Edoardo ^a,b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE BIETTI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL EPITHELIECTOMY; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURGERY; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CORNEA CELL; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEA EPITHELIUM; CORNEA NERVE; CORNEA THICKNESS; CRYOTHERAPY; DRUG SAFETY; DYSPLASIA; ENDOTHELIAL PLEOMORPHISM; ENDOTHELIAL POLYMEGATISM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EYE CANCER; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NERVE; OCULAR SURFACE SQUAMOUS NEOPLASIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETREATMENT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SUBBASAL NERVE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952031911     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2010.183244     Document Type: Article

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