Hyperbaric oxygen and photodynamic thera
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Maier, Alfred; Anegg, Udo; Fell, Birgit; Rehak, Peter; Ratzenhofer, Beatrix; Tom
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Background and Objective: The photochemical reaction of photodynamic therapy (PDT) depends on the presence of molecular oxygen. Because of anoxic regions in tumor tissue and vascular shutdown during PDT, the efficiency is limited. Therefore, the use of hyperbaric oxygen, which increases the oxyg