Patients with hand- or plantar warts of the type vulgaris.
Conditions
Interventions
Treatment arms:
Common warts:
Monochloroacetic acid: We chose to use a saturated concentration of 76% of monochloroacetic acid for application on a 2 weekly basis.
Cryotherapy: We chose a regimen
Sponsors
Prof. dr.WJJ Assendelft, head of department Public Health and Primary Care
Leiden University Medical Centre
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: All patients from the age of 4 onward, who present themselves to their general practitioner with one or more new warts of the type vulgaris on commons or feet.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Immunocompromised patients, patients with mosaic warts larger than 1 cm in diameter, women who are pregnant or who are breastfeeding their children.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| ‘Cure', meaning all common- and plantar wart(s) have totally disappeared (normal skin) at 13 weeks. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The number of warts that still exist at follow-up, the subjective hindrance caused by the warts as well as by the treatment, pain and other adverse effects of the treatment, subjective judgement of the effect of the treatment by the patient, objective judgement of the effect of the treatment by the research nurse at follow up, the consumption of co-interventions during follow-up. | — |
Contacts
Public ContactJ.A.H. Eekhof
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), P.O. Box 2088
Outcome results
None listed