INTRASURGICAL PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY IN COMBINED TREATMENT OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DAMAGED PLEURA

The treatment of pleurodesis combined with photodynamic therapy was shown to be the highly effective method of treatment metastatic pleurisy resulted in improving patients' life quality and in some cases in increasing survival of patients. Based on the preliminary experience of combined treatment of mesothelioma with intrasurgical photodynamic therapy we conclude that such ap- proach is promising and requires further study.