ABSTRACT

Intralesional injection applications being used more frequently in the practice of dermatology were primarily developed in order to avoid systemic side effects of steroids. Intralesional applications enable the potent drugs to achieve local effect with regionally high concentrations but without systemic toxicities. Commonly known, chemotherapeutic agents have the potential for many side effects and cytotoxicities with systemic use. Intralesional use of chemotherapeutic drugs is becoming widespread in the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancers in which surgery is contraindicated or may result in functional or cosmetic loss. In this article, intralesional use of chemotherapeutic and biological agents, their advantages and disadvantages, administered dosages as well as efficacy and safety profiles were summarized and it was aimed to encourage intralesional applications to be more frequently used by all dermatologists.