Enhancing survival prognostication in patients with choroidal melanoma by integrating pathologic clinical and genetic predictors of metastasis

International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 18-35

  Eleuteri, Antonio ^a   Damato, Bertil ^a   Coupland, Sarah E ^b   Taktak, Azzam F G ^a  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromosome aberrations; Histology; Mathematical modelling; Mortality; Prognostication; Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

DERMATOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

ACCELERATED FAILURE TIME MODELS; CHOROIDAL MELANOMA; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GOOD CORRELATIONS; IMPUTATION TECHNIQUES; MORTALITY; PROGNOSTICATION; UVEAL MELANOMA;

DIAGNOSIS;

EID: 84860245560     PISSN: 17526418     EISSN: 17526426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBET.2012.045355     Document Type: Article

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