Patients and clinicians experience the frustration of cutaneous viral warts caused by infection with the human papilloma virus (HPV).Warts appear in various forms on different sites of the body and include common warts (verruca vulgaris), plane or flat warts, myrmecia, plantar warts, coalesced mosaic warts, filiform warts,periungual warts, anogenital warts (venereal or condyloma acuminata), ora...

Plantar warts, caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV), are a commonly encountered condition presenting in clinic. In adults, an array of various therapies exists, frequently with modest results particularly with plantar lesions. Microwaves have had limited uses for medical purposes. Recently a new portable microwave device has been approved for the treatment of skin lesions. Prior research h...

Warts are among the most common skin diseases especially in children between the ages of 12-16 years. Usually plantar and periungual lesions are resistant to traditional treatments and cause a lot of trouble for patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate therapeutic effects of intralesional Bleomycin injection. This study was performed on 38 cases of recalcitrant warts. All the lesions dis...

10 Dermatological Nursing, 2009, Vol 8, No 3 Ivan Bristow is a Lecturer at the School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton. Jane Greenwood is Specialist Podiatrist in Long Term Conditions, Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust The number of treatments offered for a particular condition is often indicative of the unsatisfactory success rate in curing the problem. This can be ...

<p class="abstract"><strong>Background:</strong> Warts are one of the most common benign growths skin caused by human papilloma virus. No single treatment has proved to be completely effective and therapies for palmo-plantar periungual warts remain unsatisfactory. The present study was conducted evaluate therapeutic efficacy safety intralesional bleomycin injection in patients...

Dermatologic TherapyVolume 34, Issue 2 e14941 CORRIGENDUMFree Access Topical treatment for plantar warts: A systematic review This article corrects the following: Sara García-Oreja Francisco Javier Álvaro-Afonso Yolanda García-Álvarez Esther García-Morales Irene Sanz-Corbalán Jose Luis Lázaro Martínez Volume 34Issue 1Dermatologic Therapy First Published online: December 14, 2020 published: 01 A...

BACKGROUND GPs apply several treatments for patients with cutaneous warts. Available evidence recommends salicylic acid application. OBJECTIVE We investigated whether current choices of GPs in the treatment of warts are in agreement with available evidence. METHODS A nationwide random sample of 700 Dutch GPs received a postal questionnaire on their choices in the treatment of warts. In addi...

Background and aim: Treatment of resistant warts is a common clinical problem. Immunotherapy with diphenyl cyclopropenone (DCP) as a contact sensitizer has been reported. The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of DCP in refractory warts.Materials and methods: Nineteen patients with refractory warts referred to Razi Hospital in 2004 who had not responded to at least 2 treatment...