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A Two-week Interval Is Better Than a Three-week Interval for Reducing the Recurrence Rate of Hand-foot Viral Warts after Cryotherapy: A Retrospective Review of 560 Hand-foot Viral Warts Patients
Annals of Dermatology ; : 53-60, 2011.
Article in English | WPRIM (Western Pacific) | ID: wpr-196210
Responsible library: WPRO
ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND:

Viral warts are a common infectious disease and liquid nitrogen cryotherapy is one of the most common methods for treatment of these warts. Hand-foot viral warts frequently recur and reduce quality of life as well.

OBJECTIVE:

To find the ideal treatment interval between cryotherapy sessions that can influence not only the cure rate but also the recurrence rate for hand-foot viral warts.

METHODS:

A retrospective study was designed to compare a 2 week interval and a 3 week interval between cryotherapy sessions on hand-foot viral warts with respect to cure rate, recurrence rate, treatment number, duration of treatment, mean time to recurrence and adverse events.

RESULTS:

A total of 560 patients were enrolled. The overall cure rate was 75.7% and the recurrence rate was 19.6%. The mean time to recurrence was 7.8 months (range 1~26 months). For the 2-week and 3-week groups, cure rates were, respectively, 76.6% (196) and 75.0% (228); recurrence rates were 13.3% (26) and 25.0% (57). The mean time to recurrence was 9.8 months and 6.9 months, respectively. Adverse events were not statistically different.

CONCLUSION:

We suggested that 2-week cryotherapy is optimal not only because of the rapid cure but also because of the lower recurrence rate and similar adverse events.
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Full text: Available Health context: SDG3 - Health and Well-Being Health problem: Target 3.3: End transmission of communicable diseases Database: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Quality of Life / Recurrence / Warts / Communicable Diseases / Retrospective Studies / Cryotherapy / Nitrogen Type of study: Observational study Aspects: Patient-preference Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: Annals of Dermatology Year: 2011 Document type: Article
Full text: Available Health context: SDG3 - Health and Well-Being Health problem: Target 3.3: End transmission of communicable diseases Database: WPRIM (Western Pacific) Main subject: Quality of Life / Recurrence / Warts / Communicable Diseases / Retrospective Studies / Cryotherapy / Nitrogen Type of study: Observational study Aspects: Patient-preference Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: Annals of Dermatology Year: 2011 Document type: Article
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