Metvix (PhotoCure)

Overview

Journal Curr Opin Investig Drugs

Specialties Infectious Diseases
Pharmacology

Date 2002 Dec 13

PMID 12476972

Citations 5

Authors

Kerstin Gardlo

Thomas Ruzicka

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Abstract

Metvix is a photosensitive cream containing the methyl ester of 5-aminolevulinic acid, which has been developed and launched by PhotoCure in Sweden for the treatment of high-risk basal cell carcinoma and actinic keratosis.

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