Photodynamic therapy to control life-threatening hemorrhage from hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 492-494

  McCaughan Jr , James S ^a,b   Hawley, Philip C ^a   Larosa, Joseph C ^a   Thomas, John H ^a   Hicks, William J ^a  

^a GRANT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Laser Medical Research Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

dihematoporphyrin ether; hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia; photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

PHOTOFRIN II; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRONCHIAL DISEASES; DIHEMATOPORPHYRIN ETHER; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; TELANGIECTASIA, HEREDITARY HEMORRHAGIC;

EID: 0030469923     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)19:4<492::AID-LSM17>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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