Evidence-based review of management of nongenital cutaneous warts

Cutis

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Kuykendall Ivy, Tracy D ^a,b   Johnson, Sandra Marchese ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b Dermatology Clinical Trials   (United States)

^c CSC 124 a ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 ETHOXYETHANOL; ACICLOVIR; ACID; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CANTHARIDIN; CIDOFOVIR; CIMETIDINE; DITHRANOL; FLUOROURACIL; FORMALDEHYDE; FORMIC ACID; GLUTARALDEHYDE; IDOXURIDINE; IMIQUIMOD; INTERFERON; LACTIC ACID; LEVAMISOLE; LIQUID NITROGEN; NEUTRAL RED; PODOPHYLLIN; PODOPHYLLOTOXIN; PROFLAVINE; RETINOIC ACID; SALICYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SILVER NITRATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOTHERAPY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDICATION; ELECTROSURGERY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEATING; HISTORY; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; HYBRID; HYPNOSIS; IMMUNOMODULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LASER SURGERY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDLINE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SKIN SURGERY; SKIN TUMOR; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERRUCA PLANA JUVENILIS; VERRUCA PLANTARIS; VERRUCA VULGARIS; WART VIRUS;

EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; WARTS;

EID: 0348147519     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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