Patent ID: 7169819

Claim:
A pharmaceutical emulsion composition for parenteral delivery, said composition consisting essentially of, in combination: (a) a hydrophilic phase; (b) from about 2 to 40 percent volume per volume of a pharmacologically acceptable lipoid as a hydrophobic phase dispersed as particles in said hydrophilic phase, wherein said lipoid is soybean oil, and wherein said particles are from 5 to 1000 nanometers in diameter; (c) from about 0.01 to 2 percent weight per volume of fenretinide; (d) from about 0.01 to 10 percent volume per volume of ethanol; (e) from about 0.01 to 10 percent weight per volume of a surfactant to stabilize said emulsion composition, wherein said surfactant is selected from egg phospholipids; and (f) from about 1 to 10 percent weight per volume of glycerin; said emulsion composition having a pH of about 5 to 10.