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Heat Treatment of Choroidal Melanomas

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Radiotherapy of Intraocular and Orbital Tumors

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The therapeutic effect of heat on tumors was recognized more than a century ago, when it was noted that attacks of high fever, as in erysipelas, could reduce the size of malignant tumors. Today, heat in three temperature ranges is used to treat choroidal melanomas. These three temperature ranges (hyperthermia, meaning a tumor temperature of 42–44°C; thermotherapy, with a tumor temperature of 45–65°; and photocoagulation and diathermy, requiring a tumor temperature of over 65°C) are discussed separately.

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    J. A. Oosterhuis MD

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, Leiden University Medical Center, P.O. Box 9600, 2300 RC, Leiden, The Netherlands

    J. E. E. Keunen MD & H. G. Journée-De Korver PhD

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, 750 East Adams Street, Syracuse, NY, 13210, USA

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  2. Department of Radiotherapy and Radiooncology, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

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Oosterhuis, J.A., Keunen, J.E.E., Korver, H.G.JD. (2003). Heat Treatment of Choroidal Melanomas. In: Sagerman, R.H., Alberti, W.E. (eds) Radiotherapy of Intraocular and Orbital Tumors. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55910-5_12

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