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Intraoperative 5-aminolevulinic acid-induced photodynamic diagnosis of metastatic brain tumors with histopathological analysis

BACKGROUND: Fluorescence-guided surgery using 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) is a promising real-time navigation method in the surgical resection of malignant gliomas. In order to determine whether this method is applicable to metastatic brain tumors, we evaluated the usefulness of intraoperative flu...

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Autores principales: Yagi, R., Kawabata, S., Ikeda, N., Nonoguchi, N., Furuse, M., Katayama, Y., Kajimoto, Y., Kuroiwa, T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5622438/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28962578
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-017-1239-8