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Ten patients with large melanomas and one patient with recurrent retinoblastoma were treated with combined localized current field (LCF) hyperthermia and iodine 125 irradiation delivered by episcleral plaque. Tumors were heated to 43 degrees to 45 degrees C for 28 to 45 minutes. Localized current field hyperthermia when combined with irradiation appeared to induce rapid tumor necrosis. One eye enucleated 17 hours after treatment showed only focal necrosis of the melanoma, while another eye demonstrated extensive necrosis 60 hours after treatment. In all remaining eyes, tumor regression occurred within the first month of treatment. Complications included cataract formation in six eyes, hemorrhagic retinal detachment in five eyes, and phthisis in two eyes. Complications from combined therapy of large intraocular tumors in this series appeared to result from the rapid necrosis of the tumor and secondary intraocular inflammation. Intraocular temperature dosimetry measurements demonstrated a temperature gradient of not more than -0.23 degrees C/mm-1 per axial millimeter from the episcleral plaque surface to the apex of the tumor. The authors believe that LCF hyperthermia could be a suitable means of application of hyperthermia in patients with intraocular tumors if further modifications were performed to reduce ocular complications.
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PMID:Combined localized current field hyperthermia and irradiation for intraocular tumors. 177 18

The GOW 70 PC programme utilises the individual bio-anatomy of the phacic cataract eye in the IOL power calculation for multifocal or monofocal in-the-bag-implantation for all common IOL types. In addition, an aniseiconia evaluation programme is included. The Gernet IOL power calculation is based on the GOW 70, 71 formulae which consists of the PC programme (one disc), one table (the 60% rule), an instruction for use in personal computers (Windows, Word) and in the 60% procedure. This is based on ultrasound immersion measurements of about 20,000 phacic eyes with and without cataracts and after 2,000 IOL implantations by various surgeons using the d-values of the human eye lenses of the cataract eye and the d-values of the IOL types used. The d-value of a phacic eye is the distance between the corneal vertex and the principal plane (infinitely thin lenses) of the human eye lens and is formed from the depth of the anterior segment (cornea + AC) + 60% of the human lens thickness. The d-value of a pseudophacic eye is the distance between the corneal vertex and the principal plane of the chosen IOL type. In 1984, the first definite clinical connection between the d-values of human eye lenses and of implanted PC IOL (6.0 mm-1.5 mm = 4.5 mm) was established. In 1992 and 1998 it was extended to the "newer" 60% rule and to the 60% procedure, respectively.
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PMID:[Gernet and GOW-70-Program intraocular lens calculation. Significance of the of the position of the principal plane of the lens in phakic and pseudophakic eyes for accuracy of the target refraction of different IOL types]. 1159 28