Otsuji E

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus · active 2017-2022
2022
5-Aminolevulinic Acid-Induced Protoporphyrin IX Fluorescence Imaging for Tumor Detection: Recent Advances and Challenges.
International journal of molecular sciences ·doi:10.3390/ijms23126478

5-Aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) is a natural amino acid and a precursor of heme and chlorophyll. Exogenously administered 5-ALA is metabolized into protoporphyrin IX (PpIX). PpIX accumulates in cancer cells because of the low activity of ferr…

2017
Ectopic gastrointestinal variceal bleeding with portal hypertension.
World journal of gastrointestinal surgery ·doi:10.4240/wjgs.v9.i12.288

Massive gastrointestinal bleeding from gastrointestinal varices is one of the most serious complications in patients with portal hypertension. However, if no bleeding point can be detected by endoscopy in the predilection sites of gastroint…