Proton irradiation for peripapillary and parapapillary melanomas

Archives of Ophthalmology

Volumn 129, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1127-1130

  Lane, Anne Marie ^a   Kim, Ivana K ^a   Gragoudas, Evangelos S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; ENUCLEATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOMA; METASTASIS; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAPAPILLARY MELANOMA; PERIPAPILLARY MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION PAPILLOPATHY; RADIATION RETINA MACULOPATHY; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; RETINA MACULOPATHY; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EYE ENUCLEATION; HUMANS; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RETINAL NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052805686     PISSN: 00039950     EISSN: 15383601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archophthalmol.2011.228     Document Type: Article

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