Photodynamic therapy for malignant biliary obstruction: A case series

Endoscopy

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 83-87

  Suzuki, S ^a   Inaba, K ^a   Yokoi, Y ^a   Ohata, K ^a   Ota, S ^a   Azuma, M ^a   Tanaka, T ^a   Konno, H ^a   Baba, S ^a   Hirano, T ^a   Nakamura, S ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOFRIN; PHOTOFRIN II;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYE LASER; EXCIMER LASER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC DRAINAGE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; SAFETY; STENT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMATOPORPHYRIN PHOTORADIATION; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347316415     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-814122     Document Type: Article

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