Abstract
In our hospital, verruca patients are 4% out of 964 out-patients for a month. Patients under 10 years old are 27%, those under 20 years old are 17% which makes 50%.
Therapies are consist of cryotherapy by liquidfied nitrogen for 62%, monochrorcacetic acid for 23%, salicylic acid combination with cryotherapy for 15%. Duration of therapy is within a month for 29%, within 3 months for 15%, over a year for 8%.
Historically therapy for viral warts proceeded cyotherapy on nineteen sixties, intralesional bleomycin injection , gultalaldehyde, topical 5 FU, DNCB sensitization for Nineteen seventies, LASER therapy for nineteen eighties. Painless therapy started to be considered from nineteen seventies. Those include gultalaldehyde, monochloroacetic acid, 5 FU, DNCB.
Preceding glutalaldehyde therapy was changed because of its difficulties for treat to monochloroacetic acid. It showed excellent outcome for every week's therapy. Some irritation and pain are troubles. Recently topical vitamin D3 therapy is tried for painless therapy. (Online only)