Outcomes of iodine-125 plaque brachytherapy for uveal melanoma with intraoperative ultrasonography and supplemental transpupillary thermotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 801-805

  Badiyan, Shahed N ^a   Rao, Rajesh C ^b   Apicelli, Anthony J ^a   Acharya, Sahaja ^a   Verma, Vivek ^a   Garsa, Adam A ^a   Dewees, Todd ^a   Speirs, Christina K ^a   Garcia Ramirez, Jose ^a   Esthappan, Jacqueline ^a   Grigsby, Perry W ^a   Harbour, J William ^b,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRIC PARAMETER; INTRAOPERATIVE ULTRASONOGRAPHY; LOCAL TUMOR CONTROL; METHODS AND MATERIALS; PLAQUE BRACHYTHERAPY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY;

DERMATOLOGY; IODINE; LASER SURGERY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

TUMORS;

IODINE 125;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOSIMETRY; EPISCLERAL PLAQUE BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; POSTERIOR UVEAL MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLERA; TRANSPUPILLARY THERMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; TUMOR VOLUME; UVEA MELANOMA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR BURDEN; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UVEAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896713543     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.12.014     Document Type: Article

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