The place of bronchoscopic photodynamic therapy in advanced unresectable lung cancer: Experience of 100 cases

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-6

  Moghissi, Keyvan ^a,b   Dixon, Kate ^a   Stringer, Mark ^c   Freeman, Tami ^c   Thorpe, Andrew ^a   Brown, Stanley ^c  

^a Goole DN14 6RX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIOPSY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; DIHEMATOPORPHYRIN ETHER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LASERS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PORPHYRINS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032968774     PISSN: 10107940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1010-7940(98)00295-4     Document Type: Article

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