The comparison of ruthenium brachytherapy and simultaneous transpupillary thermotherapy of choroidal melanoma with brachytherapy alone

Brachytherapy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 224-229

  Yarovoy, Andrey A ^a   Magaramov, Dzhavid A ^a   Bulgakova, Evgeniya S ^a  

^a S FYODOROV EYE MICROSURGERY FEDERAL STATE INSTITUTION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Choroidal melanoma; Transpupillary thermotherapy

Indexed keywords

RUTHENIUM 106;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID MELANOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUTHENIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84859772056     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: 18731449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2011.09.007     Document Type: Article

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