Balloon photodynamic therapy of esophageal cancer: Effect of increasing balloon size

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 248-252

  Overholt, Bergein F ^a,c   Panjehpour, Masoud ^a   DeNovo, Robert C ^b   Peterson, Mark G ^b   Jenkins, Christine ^b  

^a THOMPSON CANCER SURVIVAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

balloon; esophageal cancer; photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

PHOTOFRIN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; DOG; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; TISSUE INJURY; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

ANIMALS; BALLOON DILATATION; DOGS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGOSCOPES; ESOPHAGUS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY;

EID: 0029920940     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)18:3<248::AID-LSM5>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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