Multifocal retinoblastomas treated with transpupillary thermotherapy.

نویسندگان

  • Hsin-Yi Lin
  • Fenq-Lih Lee
  • Yu-Chieh Ko
  • Yu-Lin Hsieh
چکیده

grad u ally changed in re cent years from enucle ation or ex ter nal beam ra di a tion ther apy to fo cal con ser va tive meth ods. Thermotherapy is one of the new est meth ods in this re gard. When cou pled with che mo ther apy, it pro vides sat is fac tory con trol in se lected cases. The pres ent case was a child with his left eye enucleated pre vi ously for ret i no blas toma. The multifocal tu mors of his right eye were suc cess fully treated by transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) cou pled with che mo ther apy.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Zhonghua yi xue za zhi = Chinese medical journal; Free China ed

دوره 65 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002