Effectiveness of Photodynamic Therapy and Nd-YAG Laser Treatment for Obstructed Tracheobronchial Malignancies

Since 1980, advanced lung carcinomas were treated with palliative laser therapy for the purpose of opening the endobronchial stenosis and obstruction by either photodynamic therapy (PDT) or Nd-YAG laser treatment at Tokyo Medical University. A total of 258 lesions were treated, 81 by PDT and 177 by...

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Main Authors: Furukawa, Kinya, Okunaka, Tetsuya, Yamamoto, Hideki, Tsuchida, Takaaki, Usuda, Jitsuo, Kumasaka, Hideo, Ishida, Junzou, Konaka, Chimori, Kato, Harubumi
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1999
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2362634/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18493498
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/DTE.5.161
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