Management of patients with uveal metastases at the Liverpool Ocular Oncology Centre

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 92-98

  Konstantinidis, Lazaros ^a   Rospond Kubiak, Iwona ^a   Zeolite, Ignacio ^a   Heimann, Heinrich ^a   Groenewald, Carl ^a   Coupland, Sarah E ^b   Damato, Bertil ^c  

^a ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RUTHENIUM 106;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ENUCLEATION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; EYE BIOPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UVEA TUMOR; UVEAL METASTASIS; VERY ELDERLY; VISUAL ACUITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOPSY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890550353     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: 14682079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-303519     Document Type: Article

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