Successful treatment of an early invasive oral squamous cell carcinoma with topical 5-aminolevulinic acid-mediated photodynamic therapy

• Main Authors: Hsin-Ming Chen (Author), Chuan-Hang Yu (Author), Hung-Pin Lin (Author), Hsiang Yang (Author), Ru-Cheng Kuo (Author), Ying-Shiung Kuo (Author), Chun-Pin Chiang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Our previous studies showed successful treatment of a series of 36 oral verrucous hyperplasia lesions and of an extensive oral verrucous carcinoma with a topical 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA)-mediated photodynamic therapy (topical ALA-PDT) protocol (with a fluence rate of 100 mW/cm2 and a light exposu...