Photodynamic therapy with 5-aminolevulinic acid is not effective in bile duct cancer

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 763-766

  Zoepf, Thomas ^a,b   Jakobs, Ralf ^a   Rosenbaum, Anika ^a   Apel, Darius ^a   Arnold, Joachim C ^a   Riemann, Juergen F ^a  

^a Academic City Hospital   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM LUDWIGSHAFEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT TUMOR; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PILOT STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PILOT PROJECTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035653436     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mge.2001.119605     Document Type: Article

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