Management of periungual wart is a great challenge, especially when there is subungual extension. The major cause of recurrence of wart is improper clinical assessment of its extent and not directing therapy against the entire wart. This difficulty of ascertaining its extent could be overcome with this finger-shaped red light emitting diode device. Red light in the device penetrates the thick p...

Background: Cryotherapy is one of the most common and effective treatments of anogenital warts, and trichloroacetic acid is one of the methods commonly used. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of cryotherapy and trichloroacetic acid in the treatment of anogenital warts.Methods: This randomized clinical trial was conducted on patients with anogenital warts. The patients were divided...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of duct tape occlusion therapy for the treatment of common warts in adults. DESIGN Double-blind controlled clinical intervention trial. SETTING Veterans Affairs medical center. PARTICIPANTS A total of 90 immunocompetent adult volunteers with at least 1 wart measuring 2 to 15 mm were enrolled between October 1, 2004, and July 31, 2005. Eighty patients com...

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 ...

Two experiments assessed the effects of psychological variables on wart regression. In Experiment 1, subjects given hypnotic suggestion exhibited more wart regression than those given either a placebo treatment or no treatment. In Experiment 2, hypnotic and nonhypnotic subjects given the same suggestions were equally likely to exhibit wart regression and more likely to show this effect than no ...

To cite: Mestre T, Marques Pinto G. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014204787 DESCRIPTION The human papillomavirus (HPV) can infect the skin and mucous membranes. Common warts, filiform warts, epidermodysplasia verruciformis, mosaic warts and plantar warts represent clinical manifestations of infection with HPV. Giant warts in the hands are very r...

AIM To investigate the role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in the development of bladder transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). METHODS Seventy eight paraffin wax embedded TCC samples were tested for the presence of HPV by two methods. First, immunohistochemistry was carried out using a polyclonal antibody capable of detecting the capsid protein of all known papillomaviruses. The second method was...

Integrated Treatment Centre, 9/F., Kowloon Bay Health Centre, 9 Kai Yan Street, Kowloon Bay, Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong A prospective study was carried out from December 1998 to May 1999 in two social hygiene clinics in Hong Kong to evaluate the effect of chronic smoking on clinical response of anogenital wart (AGW) to topical 25% podophyllin therapy. Male smokers and non-smokers with newly diagnos...

Akanksha Jain*, Shilpi Agarwal, Manupriya Nain, Deeksha Singh Department of Pathology, Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi, India Verruciform xanthoma (VX) is an uncommon benign condition, which frequently affects the oral mucosa in adults. Only few cases of VX of anogenital region and skin have been reported. Clinically, it presents as a white or yellowish-white sessile or pedunculated, papil...