Laser photodynamic therapy with hematoporphyrin derivative in tumor diagnosis / 西安交通大学学报(医学版)

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the efficacy of photodynamic therapy(PDT) for tumor diagnosis.Methods A total of 1 400 patients with the cervix of uterus disease,56 patients with gullet disease,133 patients with stomach diseases,37 patients with urinary bladder tumor and 14 patients with brain tumor underwent diagnosis with PDT,combination of He-cd laser,Ar+ laser,and KTP laser.Results All of the patients could be explicitly diagnosed by this method,which indicated that PDT helped greatly in early tumor diagnosis. Conclusion PDT can be an effective diagnostic method for tumors of early stage,and should be widely applied clinically.