American Joint Committee on Cancer classification of posterior uveal melanoma (tumor size category) predicts prognosis in 7731 patients

Ophthalmology

Volumn 120, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2066-2071

  Shields, Carol L ^a,c   Kaliki, Swathi ^a,b   Furuta, Minoru ^a   Fulco, Enzo ^a   Alarcon, Carolina ^a   Shields, Jerry A ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b L V PRASAD EYE INSTITUTE   (India)

^c WILLS EYE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRUCH MEMBRANE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHOROID MELANOMA; CILIARY BODY TUMOR; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; LOCAL EXCISION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OPTIC DISK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; UVEA MELANOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885020982     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: 15494713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2013.03.012     Document Type: Article

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