Aggressive skull base metastasis from uveal melanoma: A clinicopathologic study

European Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 811-813

  Yonekawa, Yoshihiro ^a   Kim, Ivana K ^a   Gragoudas, Evangelos S ^a   Njauw, Ching Ni J ^b   Tsao, Hensin ^b   Jakobiec, Frederick A ^a   Stacy, Rebecca C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Choroidal melanoma; Intraocular tumor; Metastasis; Uveal melanoma

Indexed keywords

KI 67 ANTIGEN; MELAN A; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY HMB 45;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CASE REPORT; CHOROID MELANOMA; CILIARY BODY TUMOR; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; CRANIOTOMY; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DEATH; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRIS TUMOR; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; SKULL BASE TUMOR; UVEA MELANOMA;

EYE ENUCLEATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PROTON THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UVEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84905190019     PISSN: 11206721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5301/ejo.5000468     Document Type: Article

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