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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Steven H Selman, Toledo, OH (US);
Assignee:
Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61K / ; A61K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
514 63 ; 514184 ; 514185 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a method for diagnosing or treating prostatic tissue in a human or animal patient which comprises sensitizing the prostatic tissue with an effective amount of a photosensitive composition which accumulates in the prostatic tissue and exposing the sensitized tissue to a source of light energy for a predetermined time and intensity sufficient to cause cellular and/or tissue function of the sensitized prostatic tissue to diminish or cease.