“…Several analytical methods have been developed for quantitative determination of ketoconazole, among them visible spectrophotometry (Abdel-Gawad, 1997), ultraviolet (UV) spectrophotometry (El-Shabouri et al, 1998;Kedor-Hackmann, Nery, Santoro, 1994), spectrofluorimetry (El-Shanawany et al, 1997), thin-layer chromatography (Roychowdhury, Das, 1996), supercritical fluid chromatography with UV detection (AshrafKhorassani, Levy, 1995), capillary electrophoresis with diode array detection (Arranz et al, 2000), high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) using different detection modes such as UV (Al-Meshal, 1989;Abdel-Moety et al, 2002;Heyden et al, 2002), diode array (Koves, 1995) and electrochemical detection (Hoffman et al, 1988), and stripping voltametric and polarographic techniques (Arranz et al, 2003). However, no reference was found using first-derivative UV spectrophotometric determination of ketoconazole in emulsions.…”