Management of cutaneous metastases using electrochemotherapy
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Management of cutaneous metastases using electrochemotherapy
BACKGROUND Cutaneous metastases may cause considerable discomfort as a consequence of ulceration, oozing, bleeding and pain. Electrochemotherapy has proven to be highly effective in the treatment of cutaneous metastases. Electrochemotherapy utilises pulses of electricity to increase the permeability of the cell membrane and thereby augment the effect of chemotherapy. For the drug bleomycin, the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Oncologica
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0284-186X,1651-226X
DOI: 10.3109/0284186x.2011.573626