Warts and all

Carcinoma of the lung: warts and all.

It is always a salutary experience to be confronted by one's own ignorance. The consequences, however, can often be worthwhile. In my own case, the paper by Soini et al on pp 887-93 of this issue of Thorax' represents a good example of this. The issues it raises should certainly provide food for thought for a wide range of respiratory physicians, other clinicians, pathologists, and medical scie...

All Sorts of Warts - Separating Fact from Fiction. Part 1. Etiology, Biology and Research Milestones

Warts are common,contagious,usually benignepithelialpapillomascausedby the humanpapillomavirus. In Part 1of this two-partessay, the etiologic,biologic,and clinicalcharacteristics,as well as msdignaattransformationin warts, are discussed.Usingthe ISI@databaw, we’ve identifiedthe most activeresearchfrontsduringthe past decadeand their relationshipto other medicalproblems. Thekeyplayersin thisinte...

Interpreting negative results from an underpowered clinical trial: warts and all.

I N THE RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL by de Haen et al that appears in this issue of the ARCHIVES, the application of duct tape is compared with placebo as a treatment for common warts. The investigators recruited 103 children in the Netherlands from primary schools and assessed them for warts. Those with warts were randomized to 1 of 2 groups. One group received duct tape to apply to a ...

Anogenital Warts

Anogenital warts are caused by infection with HPV. There are >100 of these double-stranded-DNA papovaviruses characterised, with most now fully DNA-sequenced. HPV is transmitted sexually in most cases but can also be transmitted prenatally, by auto-inoculation or hetero-inoculation from non-genital warts. Anogenital warts have a 60% transmission rate between partners. Over 95% of genital warts ...

Corns and Warts