Clearance of a thick invasive squamous cell carcinoma after multiple treatments with topical photodynamic therapy

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 703-706

  Li, Qiang ^a   Gao, Tianwen ^a   Long, Heather Ann ^b   Ujiie, Hideyuki ^b  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5-AMINOLAEVULINIC ACID; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EFFECTIVE THERAPY; LIMITING FACTORS; NONMELANOMA SKIN; RED LIGHT; SIDE EFFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TOTAL DOSE;

EMULSIFICATION; PLASMONS; TUMORS;

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY;

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; REMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCALP; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCALP; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78751661307     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2009.2610     Document Type: Article

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