The effect of pre-operative topical anaesthetic cream on the ablative width and coagulative depth of ablative fractional resurfacing laser

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• 作者：Preawphan Punyaratabandhu ; Rungsima Wanitphakdeedecha…
• 关键词：Topical anaesthetic cream ; Ablative width ; Coagulative depth ; Ablative fractional resurfacing laser
• 刊名：Lasers in Medical Science
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：32
• 期：2
• 页码：291-295
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Dentistry; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices; Quantum Optics;
• 出版者：Springer London
• ISSN：1435-604X
• 卷排序：32

文摘

Topical anaesthetic cream (TAC) is commonly used as a pre-treatment of ablative fractional resurfacing (AFR) laser. Most of anaesthetic cream contains distilled water as major component. Therefore, pre-operative TAC may interfere the photothermal reaction in the skin treated with fractional carbon-dioxide (FCO₂) laser and fractional erbium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet (FEr:YAG) laser. The objective of the study was to compare the ablative width (AW) and coagulative depth (CD) of AFR laser with and without pre-treatment with TAC. Four Thai females who underwent abdominoplasty were included in the study. The excised skin of each subject was divided into four areas. TAC (eutectic mixture of local anaesthesia; EMLA) with 1-h occlusion was applied only on the first and second areas. The first and third areas were treated with FCO₂ at 15 mj and 5% density. The second and fourth areas were treated with FEr:YAG at 28 J/cm2 and 5% density. Six biopsied specimens were obtained from each area. A total of 96 specimens (24 specimens from each area) were collected from four patients and examined randomly by two dermatopathologists. The ablative width and coagulative depth from each specimen were determined. In FCO₂-treated specimens, the mean AW of the specimens that were pre-treated with TAC and control was 174.86 ± 24.57 and 188.52 ± 41.32 μm. The mean CD of the specimens that were pre-treated with TAC and control was 594.96 ± 111.72 and 520.03 ± 147.40 μm. There were no significant differences in AW and CD between both groups (p = 0.53 and p = 0.15). In FEr:YAG-treated specimens, the mean AW of the specimens that were pre-treated with TAC and control was 381.11 ± 48.02 and 423.65 ± 60.16 μm. The mean CD of the specimens that were pre-treated with TAC and control was 86.03 ± 29.44 and 71.59 ± 18.99 μm. There were no significant differences in AW and CD between both groups (p = 0.16 and p = 0.24). The pre-treatment with TAC provided no statistically difference from the control group on AW and CD of both FCO₂ and FEr:YAG laser irradiation. However, there was a tendency to have narrower AW and deeper CD of the areas that were pre-treated with TAC when comparing to that of the control.