Toxicity of photodynamic therapy after combined external beam radiotherapy and intraluminal brachytherapy for carcinoma of the upper aerodigestive tract

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 278-281

  Sanfilippo, Nicholas J ^a   Hsi, Alex ^a   DeNittis, Albert S ^a   Ginsberg, Gregory G ^a   Kochman, Michael L ^a   Friedberg, Joseph S ^a   Hahn, Stephen M ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Department of Radiation Oncology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Esophagus cancer; Lung cancer; Morbidity; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

PHOTOFRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TISSUE INJURY; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0035072064     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.1051     Document Type: Article

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