Background/purpose Carotid body paragangliomas are rare hypervascular lesions which may benefit from preoperative devascularization to reduce intraoperative blood loss. The optimal method for ...

Tumoricidal photodynamic (PDT) and photothermal (PTT) therapies harness light to eliminate cancer cells with spatiotemporal precision by either generating reactive oxygen species or increasing ...

At that time the concern was the devascularization of the stomach secondary to proximal gastric vagotomy 19. It was learned that the stomach submucosal arterial plexus is very rich and sufficient to ...