Intraoperative simultaneous PDD and PDT with TS can be performed for patients with malignant glioma. The blue excitation light that is used for 5-aminolevulinic acid PDD can be used for our technique (TS-PDD). The strong fluorescence from pathologically malignant tissues may be due at least in part to the involvement of microvascular structures.
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Shimizu et al. (2018) studied this question.