|
KMID : 0383820090670040338
|
|
Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
2009 Volume.67 No. 4 p.338 ~ p.344
|
|
|
Usefulness of Photodynamic Therapy in the Management of Early Central Lung Cancer: A Report of Three Cases
|
|
Lee Jong-Hoo
Jeon Kyeong-Man
Koh Won-Jung
Suh Gee Young
Chung Man-Pyo
Kim Ho-Joong
Kwon O-Jung
Han Joung-Ho
Um Sang-Won
|
|
|
Abstract
|
|
|
|
In photodynamic therapy, a chemical photosensitizer is activated by light of a specific wavelength., Photodynamic therapy has been combined with bronchoscopy in patients who are ineligible for surgical resection in order to treat patients with early central lung cancer. Here, we describe 3 patients with early central lung cancer who were treated effectively using photodynamic therapy. Our experience shows that this approach is a useful modality in the therapy of these types of tumors.
|
|
|
KEYWORD
|
|
|
Photodynamic therapy, Early central lung cancer, Rigid bronchoscopy
|
|
|
FullTexts / Linksout information
|
|
|
|
|
Listed journal information
|
|
  
|