Publications by authors named "Marilia Wellichan Mancini Vasquez"

Purpose: Glioblastoma is a malignant and aggressive brain tumour that, although there have been improvements in the first line treatment, there is still no consensus regarding the best standard of care (SOC) upon its inevitable recurrence. There are novel adjuvant therapies that aim to improve local disease control. Nowadays, the association of intraoperative photodynamic therapy (PDT) immediately after a 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) fluorescence-guided resection (FGR) in malignant gliomas surgery has emerged as a potential and feasible strategy to increase the extent of safe resection and destroy residual tumour in the surgical cavity borders, respectively.

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