Juxtapapillary uveal melanomas: Patient outcomes after treatment with proton irradiation for peripapillary and parapapillary melanomas

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1218-1220

  Houston III, Samuel K ^a   Markoe, Arnold M ^b   Boldt, H Culver ^c   Murray, Timothy G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; EDITORIAL; ENUCLEATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; NOTCHED PLAQUE BRACHYTHERAPY; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PLAQUE BRACHYTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETINA MACULOPATHY; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UVEA MELANOMA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

HUMANS; MELANOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RETINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80052794837     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.241     Document Type: Editorial

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