Local tumor control, visual acuity, and survival after hypofractionated stereotactic photon radiotherapy of choroidal melanoma in 212 patients treated between 1997 and 2007

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 199-205

  Dunavoelgyi, Roman ^a   Dieckmann, Karin ^a   Gleiss, Andreas ^a   Sacu, Stefan ^a   Kircher, Karl ^a   Georgopoulos, Michael ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^a   Zehetmayer, Martin ^a   Poetter, Richard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Choroidal melanoma; Hypofractionated stereotactic photon radiotherapy; Local tumor control; Melanoma related death; Visual acuity

Indexed keywords

CHOROIDAL MELANOMA; HYPOFRACTIONATED STEREOTACTIC PHOTON RADIOTHERAPY; LOCAL TUMOR CONTROL; MELANOMA-RELATED DEATH; VISUAL ACUITY;

DERMATOLOGY; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RUTHENIUM; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; VISION;

TUMORS;

FLUORESCEIN;

A SCAN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; B SCAN; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOROID MELANOMA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOFRACTIONATED STEREOTACTIC PHOTON RADIOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; STEREOTACTIC TREATMENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; EYE ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR BURDEN; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961127899     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.04.035     Document Type: Article

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