Treatment options in the management of choroidal metastases

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 218, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 372-377

  Amer, Radgonde ^a   Pe'er, Jacob ^a   Chowers, Itay ^a   Anteby, Irene ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Choroidal metastasis; Ocular metastasis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHOROID TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LASER COAGULATION; LOCAL THERAPY; MALE; METASTASIS; PATIENT CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLID TUMOR; SYSTEMIC THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 9244243703     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080939     Document Type: Article

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