Sequential photodynamic therapy (PDT) and high dose brachytherapy for endobronchial tumour control in patients with limited bronchogenic carcinoma

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Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 790-793

  Freitag, L ^b   Ernst, A ^a   Thomas, M ^b   Prenzel, R ^b   Wahlers, B ^b   Macha, H N ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b LUNGENKLINIK HEMER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOFRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS TUMOR; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER COAGULATION; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4544248539     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thx.2003.013599     Document Type: Article

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