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Purpose Successful cases have shown that conversion surgery after chemotherapy improves the prognosis of advanced gastric cancer. However, it is necessary to carefully select patients who have no unresectable factors prior to surgery. We recently reported that diagnostic laparoscopy with photodynamic diagnosis using oral 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA-PDD) is a promising tool for diagnosing early peritoneal...
BackgroundThis study evaluated the usefulness of photodynamic diagnosis (PDD) using oral 5‐aminolevulinic acid (ALA) for the detection of peritoneal metastases in advanced gastric cancer.
MethodFirst, the numbers of peritoneal metastatic nodules that were visible under conventional white light (WL) and ALA‐induced fluorescence (ALA‐F) were quantified in a mouse model of peritoneal metastasis to compare...
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