"Dihematoporphyrin Ether" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The purified component of HEMATOPORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE, it consists of a mixture of oligomeric porphyrins. It is used in photodynamic therapy (HEMATOPORPHYRIN PHOTORADIATION); to treat malignant lesions with visible light and experimentally as an antiviral agent. It is the first drug to be approved in the use of PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY in the United States.
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D017323
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D03.383.129.578.840.500.462.400.200 D03.633.400.909.500.462.400.200 D04.345.783.500.462.400.200 D23.767.727.462.400.200
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