David Diaz-Carballo Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Colorectal cancer, Cancer chemotherapy, Prostate biomarker, Endometrial cancer, Tumor marker
Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
David Diaz-Carballo was working in the Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany. He has more than 40 publications. His current research area related to osteoarthropathy.
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Author(s): Tanja Khosrawipour, Dan Wu, Alexander Bellendorf, Nirushika Mohanaraja, Ebru Karabay, David Diaz-Carballo and Veria Khosrawipour
Background: Pressurized Intraperitoneal Aerosol Chemotherapy (PIPAC) is a well-established, yet not fully evaluated new treatment approach for peritoneal carcinomatosis with the aim at enabling localized application of chemo aerosol within the abdominal cavity. Distribution inhomogeneity in PIPAC has been previously indicated in prior experiments. This study was conducted to investigate whether this finding can be used to achieve localized high drug concentrations into micro metastasis.
Materials and Methods: PIPAC construct was built using a hermetic container system which mimics the abdominal cavity. Fresh parietal peritoneum portions from post-mortem swine were cut into samples and placed vertically in the center of a box. The Micropump©... view moreĀ»