Cholangiocarcinoma: Improving biliary drainage with PDT

Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 82-83

  Chapman, Michael H ^a   Pereira, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; GEMCITABINE; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN BCL 2; SCATTER FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN C; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; BILE DUCT CARCINOMA; BILIARY TRACT CANCER; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BILIARY TRACT ENDOSCOPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MONOTHERAPY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPREGULATION;

BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY;

EID: 68349113703     PISSN: 15721000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2009.06.002     Document Type: Editorial

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