Chemoreduction Followed by Local Therapy and Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Advanced Intraocular Retinoblastoma: A Pilot Study in a Single Center
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Chemoreduction followed by local therapy and adjuvant chemotherapy for advanced intraocular retinoblastoma: a pilot study in a single center.
Intraocular (IO) retinoblastoma (RB) has traditionally been treated with enucleation (ENU) or external beam radiotherapy (EBRT). Recently, clinical trials are in progress to cure RB without ENU or EBRT in order to salvage the globe and to avoid unacceptable side effects of EBRT. We performed a pilot study to treat patients with advanced Reese-Ellsworth (RE) stage IO RB with initial chemotherapy...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Korean Medical Science
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1011-8934,1598-6357
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2002.17.6.817