Photodynamic therapy strictures: who is at risk?

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-69

  Overholt, Bergein F ^a  

^a Gastrointestinal Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMATOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; PHOTOFRIN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; PREDNISONE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

BALLOON; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; CLINICAL STUDY; COMORBIDITY; CRYOTHERAPY; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPLASIA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC BIOPSY; ENDOSCOPIC MUCOSAL RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SCAR FORMATION;

BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; DILATATION; ESOPHAGEAL STENOSIS; HUMANS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RETREATMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33845580661     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2006.09.031     Document Type: Editorial

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