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ArticlePharmaceutics2025

Photodynamic Therapy with 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Versus Topical Corticosteroids in the Treatment of Oral Lichen Planus: A Randomized Clinical Trial with Lesion Site-Specific Analysis.

Aleksandra Pietruska, Magdalena Sulewska, Patryk Wiśniewski, Jagoda Tomaszuk, Emilia Szymańska, Katarzyna Winnicka, Joanna Narolewska, Małgorzata Pietruska

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Article in Pharmaceutics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Aleksandra PietruskaStudent's Research Group, Department of Periodontal and Oral Mucosa Diseases, Medical University of Bialystok, ul. Waszyngtona 13, 15-269 Bialystok, Poland.
Magdalena SulewskaStudent's Research Group, Department of Periodontal and Oral Mucosa Diseases, Medical University of Bialystok, ul. Waszyngtona 13, 15-269 Bialystok, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-4326-8907
Patryk WiśniewskiStudent's Research Group, Department of Periodontal and Oral Mucosa Diseases, Medical University of Bialystok, ul. Waszyngtona 13, 15-269 Bialystok, Poland.ORCID 0009-0002-4613-383X
Jagoda TomaszukStudent's Research Group, Department of Periodontal and Oral Mucosa Diseases, Medical University of Bialystok, ul. Waszyngtona 13, 15-269 Bialystok, Poland.
Emilia SzymańskaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, Medical University of Białystok, Mickiewicza 2c, 15-222 Białystok, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-0355-8598
Katarzyna WinnickaDepartment of Pharmaceutical Technology, Medical University of Białystok, Mickiewicza 2c, 15-222 Białystok, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1013-610X
Joanna NarolewskaSymmetry Medical Center, ul. Św. Rocha 5, 15-879 Białystok, Poland.
Małgorzata PietruskaStudent's Research Group, Department of Periodontal and Oral Mucosa Diseases, Medical University of Bialystok, ul. Waszyngtona 13, 15-269 Bialystok, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-0936-0769

Funding

Medical University of Białystok SUB/3/dn/20/001/1164
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

5-aminolevulinic acidALA-PDToral lichen planusphotodynamic therapyrandomized clinical trialREU indextopical corticosteroidsvisual analog scale

Identifiers

PMID41304719
PMCPMC12655606

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