Photodynamic therapy for cancer of the pancreas

Gut

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 549-557

  Bown, S G ^a,b   Hatfield, A W R ^b   Rogowska, A Z ^a,c   Whitelaw, D E ^a   Lees, W R ^b   Lovat, L B ^a,b   Ripley, P ^a   Jones, L ^a   Wyld, P ^d   Gillams, A ^b  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^d Scotia Pharmaceuticals   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; TETRAHYDROXYPHENYLCHLORIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DUODENUM OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; GASTRODUODENAL ARTERY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS CANCER; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; STENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR NECROSIS;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036285268     PISSN: 00175749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/gut.50.4.549     Document Type: Article

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