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ReviewMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2023

Deterioration of Visual Acuity after Brachytherapy and Proton Therapy of Uveal Melanoma, and Methods of Counteracting This Complication Based on Recent Publications.

Jakub Jarczak, Izabella Karska-Basta, Bożena Romanowska-Dixon

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Review in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Potential of Nanoparticle-Based Phototherapies for Future Treatment of Uveal Melanoma.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  4. The optimal approach to the primary treatment of uveal melanoma: a narrative review.Reports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jakub JarczakDepartment of Ophthalmology, Division of Ophthalmology and Ocular Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 31-501 Krakow, Poland.
Izabella Karska-BastaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Division of Ophthalmology and Ocular Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 31-501 Krakow, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-7927-6277
Bożena Romanowska-DixonDepartment of Ophthalmology, Division of Ophthalmology and Ocular Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, 31-501 Krakow, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4251-2533
Jagiellonian University · PL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common primary intraocular malignancy in adults. The eyeball is the most common extracutaneous location of melanoma. UM is a huge threat to a patient's life. It metastasizes distantly via blood vessels, but it can also spread locally and infiltrate extraocular structures. The treatment uses surgical methods, which include, among others, enucleation and conservative methods, such as brachytherapy (BT), proton therapy (PT), stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS), transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT) and photodynamic therapy. The key advantage of radiotherapy, which is currently used in most patients, is the preservation of the eyeball with the risk of metastasis and mortality comparable to that of enucleation. Unfortunately, radiotherapy very often leads to a significant deterioration in visual acuity (VA) as a result of radiation complications. This article is a review of the latest research on ruthenium-106 (Ru-106) brachytherapy, iodine-125 (I-125) brachytherapy and proton therapy of uveal melanoma that took into account the deterioration of eye function after therapy, and also the latest studies presenting the new concepts of modifications to the applied treatments in order to reduce radiation complications and maintain better visual acuity in treated patients.

Indexed as

BrachytherapyMelanomaProton TherapyAdultHumansIodine RadioisotopesRetrospective StudiesUveal MelanomaUveal NeoplasmsVisual AcuityIodine-125Iodine Radioisotopesbrachytherapyproton therapyradiation complicationsradiation therapyuveal melanomavision deteriorationvisual acuity

Identifiers

PMID37374335
PMCPMC10303310
OpenAlexW4380628940

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