Photodynamic therapy adjuvant to surgery in metastatic carcinoma in brain

Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 227-230

  Aziz, F ^a   Telara, S ^a   Moseley, H ^a   Goodman, C ^a   Manthri, P ^a   Eljamel, M Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluorescence guided resection; Matastatic brain carcinomas; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; PHOTOFRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIODE LASER; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTESTINE CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEUROIMAGING; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449674069     PISSN: 15721000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2009.09.003     Document Type: Article

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