First experience in 5-ALA fluorescence-guided and endoscopically assisted microsurgery of brain tumors

Medical Laser Application

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 202-208

  Potapov, Aleksandr A ^a   Usachev, Dmitry J ^a   Loshakov, Valery A ^a   Cherekaev, Vasilii A ^a   Kornienko, Valery N ^a   Pronin, Igor N ^a   Kobiakov, Grigory L ^a   Kalinin, Pavel L ^a   Gavrilov, Anton G ^a   Stummer, Walter ^b   Golbin, Denis A ^a   Zelenkov, Petr V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

5 ALA; Endoscopy; Fluorescence; Malignant glioma; PDD

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; END EFFECTORS; ENDOSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE; LUMINESCENCE; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SURGERY; TUMORS;

5-ALA; AMINOLEVULINIC ACIDS; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN TISSUES; BRAIN TUMORS; CHORDOMA; MALIGNANT GLIOMA; MALIGNANT GLIOMATA; MICRO-SURGERY; NEUROENDOSCOPES; PDD; SKULL BASEST; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; TUMOR TISSUES;

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 54849423419     PISSN: 16151615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mla.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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