Possibility of using laser spectroscopy for the intraoperative detection of nonfluorescing brain tumors and the boundaries of brain tumor infiltrates: Technical note

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 618-620

  Utsuki, Satoshi ^a   Oka, Hidehiro ^b   Sato, Sumito ^b   Suzuki, Sachio ^b   Shimizu, Satoru ^b   Tanaka, Satoshi ^b   Fujii, Kiyotaka ^b  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

5 aminolevulinic acid; Photodynamic diagnosis; Protoporphyrin IX; Spectroscopy; Tumor fluorescence

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CELL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; IRRADIATION; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADULT; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 33645544189     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.2006.104.4.618     Document Type: Article

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