1. One stone, two birds: managing multiple common warts on hands and face by local hyperthermia
- Author
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Wei Huo, Ruiqun Qi, Xing-Hua Gao, Yuxiao Hong, Hong-Duo Chen, and Lan-Ting Hu
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Target lesion ,Hyperthermia ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,virus diseases ,Dermatology ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Left eye ,Local Hyperthermia ,Medicine ,Canthus ,Human papillomavirus ,business ,Common warts ,Clearance - Abstract
A man developed with multiple warts on his hands and the inner canthus of his left eye. We applied local hyperthermia on a single target lesion on his hand at a surface temperature of 44°C for 30 minutes on Days 1, 2, 3, 17, and 18. All the lesions treated with or without heat cleared 8 weeks after the last treatment. Treatment of a target lesion resolved all other untreated lesions, a fact suggestive that local hyperthermia could induce activation of specific immunity against human papillomavirus on the lesional skin, which lead to resolution of all the warts.
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- 2014