Ophthalmic and adnexal complications of radiotherapy

SR Durkin, D Roos, B Higgs… - Acta ophthalmologica …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The role of radiotherapy in ophthalmic practice continues to grow. This growth has seen an
expansion of indications for radiotherapy, a refinement of the modalities that can be used …

Chemotherapy plus local treatment in the management of intraocular retinoblastoma

AL Murphree, JG Villablanca, WF Deegan… - Archives of …, 1996 - jamanetwork.com
Objective: To describe platinum-based chemotherapy combined with local treatment
modalities as an alternative to external beam radiotherapy for intraocular retinoblastoma …

Current treatments for radiation retinopathy

GP Giuliari, A Sadaka, DM Hinkle, ER Simpson - Acta oncologica, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Background. To review the currently available therapeutic modalities for radiation
retinopathy (RR), including newer investigational interventions directed towards specific …

Radiation retinopathy—clinical, histopathological, ultrastructural and experimental correlations

DB Archer, WMK Amoaku, TA Gardiner - Eye, 1991 - nature.com
Clinical, pathological and experimental studies of radiation retinopathy confirm that the
primary vascular event is endothelial cell loss and capillary closure. Pericytes are less …

Radiation retinopathy after external-beam irradiation: analysis of time-dose factors

JT Parsons, FJ Bova, CR Fitzgerald… - International Journal of …, 1994 - Elsevier
Purpose: To investigate the risk of radiation-induced retinopathy according to total radiation
dose and fraction size, based on both retrospective and prospectively collected data …

Patient-to-patient variability in the expression of radiation-induced normal tissue injury

SM Bentzen, J Overgaard - Seminars in Radiation Oncology, 1994 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy is associated with a broad spectrum of early and late normal tissue injury. It is
a basic clinical observation that even within a group of identically treated patients large …

Radiation retinopathy following plaque radiotherapy for posterior uveal melanoma

K Gündüz, CL Shields, JA Shields, J Cater… - Archives of …, 1999 - jamanetwork.com
Objective To identify the risk factors that lead to the development of radiation retinopathy
following plaque radiotherapy for posterior uveal melanoma. Radiation retinopathy is a …

The SDF‐1/CXCR4 ligand/receptor pair is an important contributor to several types of ocular neovascularization

R Lima e Silva, J Shen, SF Hackett, S Kachi… - The FASEB …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Hypoxia causes increased expression of several proteins that have the potential to promote
neovascularization. Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is up‐regulated by hypoxia in …

Preventing radiation retinopathy with hyperfractionation

AT Monroe, N Bhandare, CG Morris… - International Journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine factors associated with the
development of radiation retinopathy in a large series of patients with head-and-neck …

Proliferative radiation retinopathy after plaque radiotherapy for uveal melanoma

C Bianciotto, CL Shields, C Pirondini, A Mashayekhi… - Ophthalmology, 2010 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: To determine risk factors, occurrence rate, management, and outcome of
proliferative radiation retinopathy (PRR) after plaque radiotherapy for uveal melanoma …