Survival and complications following Gamma Knife radiosurgery or enucleation for ocular melanoma: A 20-year experience

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 605-610

  Dinca, Eduard B ^a   Yianni, John ^a   Rowe, Jeremy ^a   Radatz, Matthias W R ^a   Preotiuc Pietro, Daniel ^b   Rundle, Paul ^a   Rennie, Ian ^a   Kemeny, Andras A ^a  

^a ROYAL HALLAMSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enucleation; Gamma Knife; Ocular melanoma; Radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CATARACT; CHOROID MELANOMA; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETINA DETACHMENT; RETINOPATHY; SEX RATIO; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED KINGDOM; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS HEMORRHAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; EYE ENUCLEATION; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOSURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862698826     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-011-1252-6     Document Type: Article

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