Long-term follow-up 10 years after transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) for small, posterior located malignant melanomas of the choroid;Langzeitverlauf 10 Jahre nach transpupillarer Thermotherapie (TTT) kleiner, posteriorer maligner Aderhautmelanome

Klinische Monatsblatter fur Augenheilkunde

Volumn 228, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 277-283

  Stoffelns, B M ^a   Schoepfer, K ^a   Vetter, J ^a   Mirshahi, A ^a   Elflein, H ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

long term follow up; malignant choroidal melanoma; ocular side effects; transpupillary thermotherapy; tumour reccurrence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; EYE SYNECHIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IRIS ATROPHY; LIVER METASTASIS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR REGRESSION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953805728     PISSN: 00232165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1273207     Document Type: Article

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