Fractional CO(2) laser-assisted drug delivery

Merete Haedersdal; Fernanda H Sakamoto; William A Farinelli; Apostolos G Doukas; Josh Tam; R Rox Anderson

doi:10.1002/lsm.20860

Fractional CO(2) laser-assisted drug delivery

Merete Haedersdal, Fernanda H Sakamoto, William A Farinelli, Apostolos G Doukas, Josh Tam, R Rox Anderson

Department of Dermatology

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Abstract

Ablative fractional resurfacing (AFR) creates vertical channels that might assist the delivery of topically applied drugs into skin. The purpose of this study was to evaluate drug delivery by CO(2) laser AFR using methyl 5-aminolevulinate (MAL), a porphyrin precursor, as a test drug.

Original language	English
Journal	Lasers in Surgery and Medicine
Volume	42
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	113-22
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0196-8092
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/lsm.20860
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2010

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